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THE  MESSAGE 

FROM 

THE  KING'S  COFFER 

BY 

RONALD  TEMPLE 


SAUSALITO  •  CALIFORNIA 

THE  TEMPLE  COMPANY 

MCMXX 


Copyright,  1920,  by  The  Temple  Company 


Printed  by  Taylor  &  Taylor,  Ban  Francisco 


TO 
OUR  FATHER 

WHO,  laying  the  foundations  of  the  earth 
and  the  measures  thereof;  stretching  line  and 
plummet  thereon;  and  making  fast  those  foun- 
dations for  a  'witness  to  the  LORD  of  hosts,  in 
the  midst  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  (as  told  in  the 
'Book  of  Job);  yet  jindeth  the  infinite  J^ove 
&  Wisdom  to  regard  even  the  little,  obscure 
sparrow  thatfalleth  .... 

Such  volition  as  has,  under  His  direction, 
been  necessary  to  the  re-assembling  and  re- 
presentation of  this  tJXCessage 
is  in  the  reverence  of 
child  to  Parent 

HUMBLY  DEDICATED 


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CONTENTS 

PART  i 

THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  PAGE    I 

PART  n 

THE  SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS  19 

PART  in 

CHILDREN  OF  WORD  43 

PART  iv 

THE  GREAT  ONE  91 

PART  v 

THE  SONG  OF  SONGS,  WHICH  IS  SOLOMON'S  139 


[     vii     ] 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT 


IN  THE  LIGHT  of  what  is  here  offered,  it  is  felt  by  the  author 
that  acknowledgment  is  primarily  due  those  who,  in  evolu- 
tional precession,  have  made  this  Message  possible: 

MARTIN  LUTHER,  sometime  Professor  of  Philoso- 
phy, author  of  a  treatise  nailed  perforce  on  the  door  of  his 
church,  who  wrested  the  HOLY  BIBLE  from  behind  bolted 
doors,  and  so  gave  to  his  fellow  man  his  inheritance. 

ROBERT  GREEN  INGERSOLL,  so-called  " anti- 
Christian"  lecturer,  and  "Atheist,"  author  of  ^he  Mistakes 
of  Moses, — who  couched  his  lance  against  the  material  mis- 
conception of  the  HOLY  BIBLE,  and  proved  his  sonship  of 
God  by  his  love  for  his  fellow  man. 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY,  author  of  Science  and  Health, 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures, — who  reverdured  the  forest  hewn 
away  by  Robert  Green  Ingersoll,  with  the  Beauty  of  Con- 
sciousness, and  proved  the  Fatherhood  of  God  by  the  power 
of  Universal  Healing. 

JOSEPH  AUGUSTUS  SEISS,D.  D.,  author  of  A 
Miracle  in  Stone,  who,  in  a- tone-men t  with  his  Father,  un- 
folded the  carven  petals  of  the  Flower  of  Egypt. 

Isaiah,  iqth  Chapter: 

1 8:   In  that  day  shall  five 

cities  in  the  land  of  Egypt 
speak  the  language  of  Ca- 
naan, and  swear  to  the  LORD 
of  hosts;  one  shall  be  called, 
The  city  of  destruction. 

19:   In  that  day  shall  there  be 
an  altar  to  the  LORD  in  the 
midst  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  and 
a  pillar  at  the  border  thereof 
to  the  LORD. 


THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

20:   And  it  shall  be  for  a  sign 
and  for  a  witness  unto  the 
LORD  of  hosts  in  the  land  of 
Egypt:  for  they  shall  cry  unto 
the  LORD  because  of  the  op- 
pressors, and  he  shall  send 
them  a  saviour,  and  a  great 
one,  and  he  shall  deliver  them. 


IN  THE  midst  of  the  land  of  what  was  once  called  Egypt, 
in  the  very  center  of  the  earth,  as  we  reckon  such,  on  the 
exact  dividing  line  between  the  Northern  and  Southern 
hemispheres,  stands,  over  a  virtually  Bottomless  Pit,  a  cyclo- 
pean  monument  in  stone,  known  as  the  First  of  the  World's 
Seven  Wonders,  the  Great  Pyramid  called  Cheops,  central 
figure  of  the  three-pyramidal  group  known  as  "The  Gizeh 
Group." 

At  midday,  exactly,  the  solemn  index  finger  of  this  Great 
Pyramid  points  directly  to  the  overhead  sun,  and  by  the 
distance  of  this  finger  from  the  base  of  the  Great  Pyramid 
the  mean  distance  of  the  sun  from  the  earth  is  computed. 
With  equal  solemnity,  the  passage  of  entrance  into  this 
Great  Pyramid  points  at  that  exact  place  in  the  heavens 
where,  in  the  year  2170  B.  C.,  as  we  reckon  time,  the  then 
tail  star  of  the  Constellation  Serpent,  a  Draconis,  which  was 
also  the  Pole  Star,  or  Star  of  the  North,  shone,  and  signaling 
the  removal  of  which  from  its  heavenly  position  at  that  date, 
the  Free-Masonic  bodies  of  the  World  darken  the  Northern 
Transepts  of  their  temples  to  this  day* 

At  exact  midnight,  with  pyramidal  accuracy,  this  mighty 
index  finger  points  at  the  place  in  the  heavens  where,  at 
midnight  of  the  autumnal  equinox  of  that  year  which  the 
Great  Pyramid  declares  to  be  its  birth  year,  Alcyone,  the 
"throne"  star  of  the  Constellation  Pleiades,  was  set  lantern- 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  5 

wise,  while  the  cycle  of  equinoxial  precession  is  told  in  exact 
inches  in  the  two  diagonals  of  the  Great  Pyramid's  base, 
taken  together  in  the  form  of  a  cross.  What  time  Job  sought 
to  measure  his  wisdom  with  that  of  God,  the  Father  correct- 
ing his  son,  asked, 

Job,j<?M  Chapter: 

31 :   Canst  thou  bind  the  sweet 
influences  of  Pleiades, ? 

33:   Knowest  thou  the  ordi- 
nances of  heaven?  canst  thou 
set  the  dominion  thereof  in  the 
earth? 

Since  time  immemorial,  and  to  this  day,  the  midnight 
beginning  the  autumnal  equinox  is  still  reckoned  as  the  be- 
ginning of  the  true  year. 

Modern  astrology  now  concedes  to  Alcyone  the  focus  of 
the  Universal  system  of  gravitation,  of  action  and  re-action. 

Into  the  manner  of  the  building  of  the  Great  Pyramid  and 
its  microscopically  accurate  plan  of  construction  and  orien- 
tation it  is  unnecessary  to  go  in  this  writing,  saving  in  the 
briefest  way,  and  full  information  may  always  be  obtained 
from  a  number  of  standard  scientific  works  thereon,  chief 
among  which  both  for  mature  and  uninstructed  interpreta- 
tion is  A  Miracle  in  Stone,  by  the  Reverend  Joseph  A. 
Seiss,  D.D. 

Suffice  it  for  this  writing,  therefore,  that  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid has  been  referred  to  by  the  earliest  of  the  earth's  known 
literature,  as  well  as  by  no  less  an  authority  than  the  Holy 
Bible  itself  (and  that  again  and  again),  whose  passages  corre- 
late exactly  with  the  Pyramidal  passageways  in  measure- 
ment and  direct  reference. 

In  the  Book  of  Job, — chapter  38, — the  speaker,  God,  de- 
scribes to  Job  all  creation,  which  he  pictures  as  an  edifice,  in 
the  terms  of  the  geometer  and  master-builder,  the  Great  High 


6  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Mason, — bases,  height,  corner  stone,  lines,  measures,  and 
foundations.  Elsewhere  God  is  accredited  with  speaking  of 
stretching  the  line  and  plummet  over  his  work;  and  also  in 
this  same  Book  of  Job  the  earth  is  described  as  hanging  upon 
nothing,  even  as  the  Great  Pyramid  is  suspended  (symboli- 
cally) over  the  nothingness  of  a  Bottomless  Pit.  Says  God, 
Master  Mason,  to  Job: 

Job,  j8th  Chapter: 

2:  Who  is  this  that  darkeneth 
counsel  by  words  without 
knowledge  ? 

4:  Where  wast  thou  when  I 
laid  the  foundations  of  the 
earth  ?  declare,  if  thou  hast 
understanding. 

5:  Who  hath  laid  the  measures 
thereof,  if  thou  knowest?  or 
who  hath  stretched  the  line 
upon  it? 

6:  Whereupon  are  the  founda- 
tions thereof  fastened  ?  or 
who  laid  the  corner  stone 
thereof; 

18:  Hast  thou  perceived  the 
breadth  of  the  earth?  declare 
if  thou  knowest  it  all. 

19:  Where  is  the  way  where 
light  dwelleth?  and  as  for 
darkness,  where  is  the  place 
thereof, 

20:  That  thou  shouldest  take 
it  to  the  bound  thereof,  and 
that  thou  shouldest  know  the 
paths  to  the  house  thereof? 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  7 

In  verses  19  and  20,  just  cited,  "the  way  where  light  dwel- 
leth,"  and  the  "place  of  darkness  thereof,"  and  the  "paths  to 
the  house  thereof,"  find  corroboration  in  this  historic  wise. 
About  3000  years  after  the  date  of  building  of  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid, the  then  son  of  the  Caliph  Haroun  Al  Raschid,  of  Ara- 
bian Night's  fame,  (elsewhere  in  this  writing  told  of),  not 
knowing  of  the  entrance  passage  of  light,  attempted  to  tunnel 
through  the  mass  of  masonry,  and  brought  up  over  the  Bot- 
tomless Pit  therein,  the  place  of  darkness. 

Lo!  in  these  verses  the  declaration  of  the  work  of  his  own 
hands  by  the  Master  Builder.  And  all  of  this  wonderful  edi- 
fice, we  are  informed  in  this  same  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Job 
by  the  Master  Builder,  was  consummated  in  the  presence  of 
the  morning  stars  and  of  the  sons  of  God,  when  the  former 
sang  together  and  the  latter  shouted  for  joy. 

On  the  strength  of  the  testimony  of  these  just  quoted 
verses  from  the  Book  of  Job  alone,  without  further  confirma- 
tion of  the  exactly  equal  numbers  occurring  to  describe  the 
same  things  in  both  Bible  and  Pyramid  (both  works  ac- 
knowledgedly  inspired),  the  oneness  of  the  Holy  Bible  and 
Great  Pyramid  in  expression  is  established;  for  it  is  not  intel- 
ligently possible  to  place  any  other  interpretation  upon  the 
wonderful  orientation  of  the  Great  Pyramid,  or  on  the  equally 
wonderful  parabolic  language  of  the  Holy  Bible,  both  elo- 
quent histories  of  the  human  race,  other  than  that  both  are 
the  presentation  in  mortal  manifestation, — the  "Word  made 
flesh,"  as  John  says, — in  exact  corroboration  of  each  other  of 
the  Psychology  of  Life;  witnesses  to  the  eternal  sonship  of 
many  and  the  eternal  Fatherhood  of  God;  testifying  in  stone 
and  scripture  to  the  former  of  his  inheritance  which,  for  lust 
and  gain,  man  laid  down  when  he  passed  of  his  own  volition 
from  the  Light, — he  a  son  of  Light,  of  Eyes-Real, — from  the 
knowledge  of  the  beauty  of  God,  down  into  the  long  twilight 
of  his  human  history  to  the  verge  of  the  very  Pit  itself. 


8  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Passing  over  the  myriad  direct  references  in  the  Holy  Bible 
to  the  Great  Pyramid,  we  read  in  the  Book  of  Psalms: 

4.8th  Psalm: 

1:  Beautiful  for  situation,  the 
joy  of  the  whole  earth,  is  mount 
Zion,  on  the  sides  of  the 
north,  the  city  of  the  great 
King. 

We  are,  in  Revelation,  distinctly  told  that  the  city  of  the 
Great  King, — the  King  of  Kings,  and  Lord  of  Lords,  than 
which  could  none  be  greater, — is  the  new  Jerusalem,  whose 
counterpart  is,  of  course,  that  Jerusalem  of  Judea  as  known 
to  us.  This  city,  says  the  Psalmist  of  old,  is  to  be  found  on  the 
north  side  of  Mount  Zion,  which  latter  is  so  beautifully  (or 
centrally)  situated  as  to  be  the  joy  of  the  whole  earth,  its 
focusing  point. 

In  A  Miracle  in  Stone  (page  16),  Doctor  Seiss,  seeking  a 
given  indication  for  Jerusalem  in  the  Great  Pyramid,  says: 

"And  if  the  Great  Pyramid  belongs  at  all  to  the  great  system  of  God's  re- 
demptive interpositions  it  could  hardly  be  wanting  in  some  reference  to 
that '  city  of  the  Lord,  the  Zion  of  the  Holy  One  of  Israel.'  So  at  least  it  ap- 
peared to  me,  and  led  me  to  search  for  the  missing  indications.  I  knew  that 
the  Pyramid's  most  distinguished  cubit  answers  to  the  sacred  cubit  of 
Moses;  that  the  capacity  measure  of  the  Pyramid's  granite  coffer  is  the 
same  as  that  of  the  Ark  of  the  Covenant;  that  the  sabbatic  system  of  the 
Jews  is  distinctly  noted  in  connection  with  the  Queen's  Chamber,  and  that 
the  molten  sea  had  proportions  of  earth  commensuration  which  appear  in 
the  size  of  the  Pyramid's  main  chamber.  ...  It  hence  occurred  to  me  to 
ascertain  the  exact  direction  of  Jerusalem  from  the  Great  Pyramid  and  to 
try  whether  it  would  fit  to  any  of  its  interior  angles.  Having  used  two  dif- 
ferent maps  to  make  sure  of  accuracy,  the  result  came  out  exactly  the  same 
in  both,  namely,  that  three  of  the  main  inside  angles  of  the  Great  Pyramid 
applied  to  its  north  side  eastward,  point  directly  to  Jerusalem.  If  a  cannon 
ball  were  shot  from  the  Great  Pyramid's  north  side  at  the  precise  angle 
eastward  as  that  of  the  entrance  passage  computed  with  the  base  line,  or 
that  of  the  main  ascending  passage  computed  with  the  same  line,  or  that  of 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  9 

the  Grand  Gallery  computed  with  the  passage  to  the  Queen's  Chamber, 
that  ball,  could  it  reach  so  far,  would  strike  the  Holy  City." 

So  then,  corroborating  the  patiently  waiting  Psalmist  of  old, 
we  find  by  exact  scientific  computation  that  Jerusalem  of 
Judea,  the  earthly  counterpart  of  the  heavenly  Jerusalem  of 
Revelation,  lies  geographically  due  from  the  North  Side  of 
that  "mount"  which  is  so  beautifully  situated  as  to  be  the 
focusing  point  of  the  whole  earth,  the  First  of  the  World's 
Seven  Wonders.  Memoria  in  aeterna. 

This  Zion,  by  means  of  whose  courses  we  "mount,"  is  a 
true  pyramid,  having  four  equal  sides  and  five  corners.  It  is 
sunk  in  heavy  foundations,  and  in  its  dimensions  gives  the 
value  of  TT  (pi),  squaring  the  circle.  That  is,  an  encompassing 
circle  drawn  to  the  radius  of  the  Great  Pyramid's  true  height, 
shows  the  lengths  of  the  four  sides  of  the  square  base  to  be  the 
same  as  the  circumference  described  by  a  sphere,  of  which  the 
vertical  height  is  the  radius.  The  granite  blocks  of  which  it 
consists  rise  by  a  series  of  "mounts"  or  steps, — that  is, 
courses  of  its  masonry, — to  a  scale  of  ten  feet  of  horizontal 
measure  for  every  nine  feet  of  perpendicular,  to  its  estimated 
height  of  5822  earth-commensurated  inches.  It  contains  a 
number  of  significant  passageways,  and  two  unsealed  cham- 
bers, known  as  the  chambers  of  the  King  and  of  the  Queen. 
This  latter  chamber  is  also  sometimes  referred  to  as  the  "  Sab- 
batic" chamber.  The  Great  Pyramid's  base  measurement  is 
about  one-sixth  of  a  mile  per  side. 

In  its  entire  system  of  commensuration  the  Great  Pyramid 
sets  forth  rigidly  certain  basic  numbers,  and  combinations 
thereof, which  numbers  have  been  accepted  unquestioningly 
during  the  ages  as  numerical  significants  of  the  various  laws 
of  life — as,  for  example,  number  Jive  for  comprehension,  seven 
for  mutation,  and  nine  for  evolution.  So  that  among  numerous 
and  manifest  computations,  all  scientifically  conceded  and 
established,  the  following  are  most  apparent, — that  each  of 


io  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

the  Pyramid's  base  lines  measures  just  the  even  fractional 
part  of  the  semi-axis  of  the  earth,  just  as  many  times  as  there 
are  calendar  days  in  the  year;  that  its  height,  multiplied 
fractionally  by  a  prominent  basic  figure  raised  to  the  power  of 
another  of  its  most  prominent  basic  figures,  gives  the  mean 
distance  of  the  earth  from  the  sun;  that  its  unit  of  length  is 
the  even  basic  fractional  part  of  the  polar  diameter  of  the 
earth;  that  its  vast  bulk  of  masonry  is  the  even  basic  portion 
of  the  weight  of  the  earth;  and  that  its  settings  and  shapings 
are  squared  and  oriented  with  an  accuracy  that  for  over  four 
thousand  of  years  has  defied  the  ignorance  of  non-science  to 
unravel, — wonderful  revelations,  yet  only  dimly  perceived  by 
the  finest  flowerings  of  mentality  that  our  world  has  to  offer. 

Thus,  briefly,  is  that  great  Pyramid  called  Cheops,  the  First 
of  the  World's  Seven  Wonders,  a  metrologic,  mathematic, 
scientific,  literary,  symbolic  treasure  house,  the  Library  of 
the  World,  whose  answer  to  the  worn-out  contention  that  it 
was  originally  a  tomb  is  given  in  the  mighty  silence  of  its  un- 
equaled  proportions  and  orientation;  for  no  designer  of  that 
structure  of  treasured  lore  would  have  any  sane  excuse  for 
submitting  to  the  impotence  of  Death.  And  so,  with  these  few 
brief  facts,  enumerated  merely  with  a  view  to  refreshing  the 
memory  of  the  instructed,  and  calling  to  the  attention  of  the 
uninstructed  some  of  the  most  salient  features  of  the  Great 
Pyramid,  but  with  no  idea  of  providing  a  manual  into  the 
plan  of  construction  of  the  Edifice  itself,  this  writing,  after 
the  immediately  following  fixing  of  the  date  of  the  erection  of 
the  Structure,  passes  directly  to  the  Message  from  the  King's 
Coffer  in  the  Great  Pyramid. 

As  has  already  been  briefly  stated,  the  entrance  to  the 
Great  Pyramid  is  adown  a  long  passageway,  or  tube,  which 
points  exactly  to  the  place  in  the  heavens  wherein,  in  the  year 
2170  B.  C.,  a  Draconis  (the  then  Pole  Star)  of  the  Constella- 
tion Serpent,  for  the  last  time  shone.  As  the  tail  star  of  this 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  n 

Constellation,  Serpent, — symbol  of  the  teacher  of  man, — we 
have  the  Great  Pyramid's  entrance  calling  attention  at  once 
to  the  Biblical  story  of  the  Garden  of  Eden, — a  story  cor- 
roborated in  the  King's  Coffer  as  well  as  an  astrological  date 
for  the  erection,  or  completion,  of  the  Great  Pyramid. 

Certain  it  is  that  a  knowledge  of  the  story  of  the  Fall  of 
man,  as  told  in  the  Holy  Bible  and  Pyramid,  would  have 
saved  one  monarch  his  power  and  credit,  for  its  application 
intelligently  made  would  have  guided  him  to  where,  short 
distance  above  his  forced  tunneling,  the  mouth  of  the  en- 
trance tube  to  the  Great  Pyramid  lies  ever  pointing  to  the 
star  that  apparently  fell  from  its  place  in  the  tail  of  the  Con- 
stellation Serpent,  and  from  its  glory  as  Light  of  the  North, 
when  man  committed  the  Sin  of  the  Ages. 

Some  three  thousand  years  subsequent  to  the  erection  of 
the  Great  Pyramid,  one  Al  Mamoun,  a  son  of  the  Caliph 
Haroun  Al  Raschid,  was  wrought  upon  by  the  necromancers 
of  his  court  to  believe  the  Great  Pyramid  filled  with  hidden 
treasure  of  a  visible  kind, — jewels  and  gold.  Guided  by  this 
ignorant  thought,  Al  Mamoun  set  to  with  armies  of  workmen 
to  quarry  an  entrance  into  the  Pyramid.  Finally,  after  re- 
peated failures,  this  was  accomplished,  a  narrow  entrance 
being  forced  into  the  great  edifice  in  a  dead  straight  line. 
Crawling  along  this,  Al  Mamoun  and  his  workers  came  tum- 
bling into  the  Pyramid  at  the  point  where  their  forced  dead 
line  broke  into  the  entrance  tube.  Here,  block  after  block  of 
granite  descended  from  the  interior  mass  of  masonry  within 
to  warn  the  would-be  despoilers;  but,  finally,  clearing  a  way 
over  the  debris,  the  caliph  and  his  men  clomb  up  the  long 
ascent  to  the  chamber  of  the  King,  only  to  find  therein  a 
lidless,  empty  coffer  of  red  granite.  The  effort  strained  Al 
Mamoun's  sovereignty  to  the  point  of  revolution,  beggared 
his  credit,  and  virtually  cost  him  his  power  and  throne.  Had 
Al  Mamoun  come  a-seeking  real  treasure,  at  no  great  distance 


12  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

above  where  he  attempted  to  violate  the  Great  Pyramid  he 
might  have  entered  it  by  its  own  inviting  entrance  passage- 
way, and  so  walked  quietly  and  with  perfect  security  and  dig- 
nity adown  this  and  on  up  the  Grand  Gallery  to  the  unsealed 
chambers  within. 

Astrologically,  in  the  year  2170  B.  C.,  as  told  by  the  then 
Pole  Star,  a  Draconis,  the  Great  Pyramid  was  ready  for  inter- 
pretation. But,  lest  any,  sceptical,  should  question  such 
manner  of  deriving  a  date  for  the  foundation  of  the  edifice, 
the  figures  2170  are  also  consummated  in  stone  in  the  interior 
of  the  edifice. 

It  has  been  established  and  accepted  by  several  authorities, 
and  the  scientific  thought  of  the  world,  that  the  sacred  cubit 
of  the  Bible  is  confirmed  by  the  Great  Pyramid  in  its  given 
cubit  measure  of  twenty-five  earth-commensurated  inches, 
this  confirmation  supporting  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  determina- 
tion of  the  same.  By  wholly  scientific  process  it  is  further 
completely  and  satisfactorily  established  that  the  Pyramid 
inch,  which  is  the  earth-commensurated  inch, — for  the  Great 
Pyramid  gives  to  us  earth  men  every  accepted,  and  now  used, 
system  of  standard  measure, — is  the  unit  measure  of  the 
standard,  or  true,  year.  According  to  this  unit  standard  of 
time  measure,  says  Doctor  Seiss: 

".  .  .  .  the  lower  tubal  passageways  prove  themselves  wonderful  time 
charts  of  human  history,  pointing  out  to  us  as  well  the  wonders  of  the  stars; 
and  the  notations  in  the  one  answer  to,  and  confirm  absolutely,  the  nota- 
tions in  the  other.  In  these  passageways  the  inch  unit  of  year  measure  ap- 
pears to  tell  its  direct  story." 

"  The  second  tube  begins  a  record  dating  from  the  formation  of  nations,  the 
subsequent  history  being  a  downward  one  under  the  influence  of  a  dragon 
star  to  the  mouth  of  a  bottomless  pit.  Following  this  decline  for  one  thousand 
inches,  at  which  date  the  Children  of  Israel  begin  their  national,  economic 
history,  and  then  upwards  along  the  ascending  passage  for  1542  inches, — the 
computed  number  of  years  from  the  Exodus  to  the  birth  of  the  Christian  Dis- 
pensation, the  exact  last  inch  brings  us  to  the  beginning  of  the  Grand  Gallery," 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  13 

that  "way"  which  leads  to  the  chamber  so  numerically 
identified  with  the  Son  of  God,  of  which  numerals  further 
explanation  is  offered  herein  in  another  place. 

"Thus,  counting  backward,  from  the  beginning  of  the  Grand  Gallery  1542 
inches  to  the  entrance  passageway,  and  then  up  the  entrance  passageway 
628  inches  further,  we  arrive  at  a  total  of  2170  inches,  which  is  the  astro- 
nomical year  date  of  the  Great  Pyramid." 

This  deduction  from  A  Miracle  in  Stone  finds  also  confirm- 
ation in  the  efforts  of  Professor  C.  Piazzi  Smyth,  sometime 
Astronomer  Royal  of  Scotland. 

But  why  have  stopped  at  this  upward  628  inches?  Why  not 
have  continued  on  up  the  end  of  the  entrance  tube  to  its 
mouth?  Because  at  the  exact  last  inch  of  these  just  enumer- 
ated 2170  inches  we  come  to  a  distinct  and  beautifully  cut 
line,  ruled  into  the  stone  sides  of  the  passageway  of  entrance 
from  top  to  bottom,  placed  there  by  none  other  than  the 
master  builders  themselves,  which  line  says  as  loud  as  can 
stones  be  made  to  speak,  "Here  is  the  end." 

Five  times  five  courses  of  masonry  construction  above 
the  chamber  known  from  time  immemorial  as  the  Queen's  (or 
Sabbatic)  Chamber,  or  ten  times  five  courses  of  masonry  con- 
struction from  the  Great  Pyramid's  base,  brings  the  seeker  to 
the  flooring  of  the  equally  anciently  known  and  named  King's 
Chamber, — that  chamber  with  which,  as  has  just  been 
pointed  out,  the  presenter  of  the  Christian  Dispensation  is  so 
numerically  identified.  In  the  center  of  the  King's  Chamber 
stands  the  King's  Coffer,  red  granite  in  substance,  lidless, 
oblong  rectangular  in  shape.  Too  large  to  permit  of  removal 
from  the  chamber  in  which  it  stands,  yet  not  of  huge  propor- 
tions, it  is  interesting  in  the  light  of  a  Biblical  description  of 
this  Kingdom  to  recall  how  the  savants  of  a  certain  modern 
time  dissipated  considerable  valuable  calculations  in  an  en- 
deavor to  devise  some  means  by  which  this  King's  Coffer 


1 4  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

might  be  removed  from  its  stronghold,  only  to  be  always  and 
finally  baffled  by  the  one  objective  that,  itself  in  no  apparent 
sense  a  fixture,  is  yet  bolted  for  all  time  to  the  very  bowels  of 
the  earth;  held  against  the  ruthless  hand  of  vandalism  in  a 
Kingdom  where  "neither  moth  nor  rust  doth  corrupt,  and 
where  thieves  can  not  break  through  and  steal."  Not  in  chal- 
lenge, but  as  a  direct  demonstration  to  man  of  the  power  of 
Wisdom  and  futility  of  Ignorance — first  of  all  lessons — 
stands  the  King's  Coffer  beyond  the  possibility  of  removal 
from  its  chamber. 

Did  the  Mind  that  oriented  this  vast  structure  and  placed 
therein  the  Coffer,  coveted  of  savants  throughout  the  ages, 
but  build  such  coffer  as  a  place  wherein  to  crawl  and  die?  Un- 
able to  remove  the  King's  Coffer  from  its  eternal  resting 
place,  quasi-science  has  been  at  much  pains  to  devise  some 
reason  for  its  being  where  it  is, — a  coffin,  although,  of  course, 
without  vestige  of  evidence  of  burial  ever  having  occurred 
there,  and  with  the  marvelous  geometrizing  and  orientation  of 
the  Great  Pyramid  itself  to  offset  such  deduction ;  a  box  to  hold 
food  for  priests  (which  priests  subsequently  retired  into  the 
belly  of  the  Sphinx  to  sleep  off  the  effects  of  their  meals,  eaten 
beside  a  supposititious  mummy  in  the  King's  Chamber);— 
no  theory  has  been  too  far  fetched,  ill-founded,  or  absurd  to 
account  for  the  presence  of  this  seemingly  inexplainable 
Coffer,  until,  in  recent  years,  unbiased  scientists  have  proven 
beyond  the  realm  of  cavil  or  possible  doubt  that,  so  far  from 
being  a  coffin,  or  food-box  for  priests,  in  this  Coffer  is  manifest 
the  evidence  of  the  very  Lore  of  Life;  and  that  from  this 
Pyramid  and  its  Coffer  do  we  obtain  every  Law,  mathemati- 
cal, astrological,  geographical,  metrological,  philosophical,  and 
literary,  under  which  we  earth  men  live,  move,  breathe,  and 
have  our  being.  And,  finally,  the  very  word  "  Coffer"  has  ever 
been  used  to  designate  treasure-container,  rather  than  the 
chief  ornament  of  an  undertaking  establishment  or  kitchen. 


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Of  the  Coffer  itself  the  following  facts  are  common  prop- 
erty: its  sides  and  bottom  are  identical  in  measurement  with 
its  internal  space;  the  length  of  its  two  sides  to  its  height  being 
as  a  circle  to  its  diameter.  Its  exterior  volume  is  just  twice  the 
dimensions  of  its  bottom,  and  its  whole  measure  is  just  the 
fiftieth  part  of  the  chamber  in  which  it  stands.  Thus  much  for 
the  most  obvious  phenomena  it  presents  to  the  novitiate. 

But  a  very  little  experimentation  serves  to  instruct  such 
novitiate  that  the  Coffer's  internal  space  is  numeric  also  with 
two  standard  wet  and  dry  measures,  such  internal  space  prov- 
ing itself  just  four  times  the  measure  of  an  English  quart  of 
wheat.  Following  this  line  of  thought  in  his  seeking,  such 
novitiate,  if  sufficiently  informed  concerning  the  various 
earth  measurements  common  to  our  text-book  laws,  would 
further  discover  that  every  known  standard  linear,  cubic,  and 
otherwise  measure,  together  with  the  standard  degrees  of  the 
boiling  and  freezing  points  of  various  liquids,  the  fusing  and 
tempering  degrees  of  all  known  standard  metals,  and  the 
specific  gravity  of  standard  bodies  of  known  weight,  includ- 
ing the  earth  itself,  are  among  other  measurements  all  given 
in  the  dimensions  of  the  King's  Coffer  in  logical,  scientific 
sequence,  just  as  one  would  open  and  read  a  text  book  of 
standard  weights  and  measures,  and  the  laws  governing  the 
same. 

More  extended  observation  of  the  further  contents  of  the 
King's  Coffer  measure  identifies  it  absolutely  with  the  Holy 
Ark  of  the  Tabernacle  and  the  Temple  as  described  in  the 
Holy  Bible, — wondrously  descriptive  phraseology! — which 
Ark  was  two-and-one-half  cubits  long  and  one-and-one-half 
cubits  broad  and  high.  Further,  the  internal  cubical  dimen- 
sions of  the  King's  Coffer  tally  exactly  with  the  Ark  of  the 
Tabernacle  and  the  Temple,  71,248  inches;  such  dimensions 
having  been  laid  down  specifically,  we  are  told,  by  God  Him- 
self. Also,  the  Ark  and  the  Coffer  mutually  sustain  each  other 


16  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

in  the  recognition  of  one  and  the  same  earth-commensurated 
cubit.  Using,  therefore,  this  same  earth-commensurated  cubit 
as  identical  with  the  sacred  cubit  of  the  Holy  Bible,  the 
further  result  automatically  follows,  that  the  Jewish  laver 
and  the  Ark  of  the  Tabernacle  are  the  same  in  capacity 
measure  with  the  King's  Coffer  of  the  Great  Pyramid,  and 
that  Solomon's  molten  sea  was  just  fifty  times  the  capacity  of 
either  of  these,  and  exactly  equal  in  interior  cubic  space  with 
the  King's  Chamber  itself.  (Vide  A  Miracle  in  Stone.) 

Further  incursions  into  the  numeric  significances  of  the 
contents  of  the  King's  Coffer  reveal  that  it  is  identical  also  as 
that  Ark  of  Genesis  described  as  Noah's  Ark,  wherein,  two 
and  two,  were  all  manifestations  of  the  Lore  of  Life  to  be  pre- 
served,— (Genesis  6:19),  "And  of  every  living  thing  of  all 
flesh,  two  of  every  sort  shalt  thou  bring  into  the  Ark,  to  keep 
them  alive  with  thee;  they  shall  be  male  and  female."  And 
this  same  interpretation  of  the  Ark  of  Noah,  and  that  which 
follows  herein,  for  once  logically  explains  how  in  one  building, 
or  floating  structure,  could  possibly  be  contained  two  of 
every  kind  of  living  thing  that  is,  or  was,  on  the  face  of  the 
whole  earth,  as  well  as  how  a  "flood,"  15  cubits  in  depth, 
(Genesis  7:20)  could  cover  the  mountains,  and  "all  the  high 
hills,  that  were  under  the  whole  heaven,"  (Genesis  7:19). 
Also,  why  in  the  I7th  verse  of  the  7th  chapter  of  Genesis  it 
should  be  distinctly  stated  that  the  "flood  was  forty  days 
upon  the  earth,"  while  in  the  24th  verse  of  the  same  chapter 
it  as  distinctly  states  that  "the  waters  prevailed  upon  the 
earth  an  hundred  and  fifty  days." 

In  Morals  and  Dogma  of  the  Ancient  and  Accepted  Rite 
of  Freemasonry ,  prepared  by  Albert  Pike  for  the  Supreme 
Council  of  the  Thirty-Third  Degree  of  the  Southern  Juris- 
diction of  the  United  States,  and  Published  by  its  Authority, 
Charleston  A:M:  5641 — on  page  n,  is  stated: 

"The  Holy  Bible,  Square,  and  Compass  are  not  only  styled  the  Great 


THE  FLOWER  OF  EGYPT  17 

Lights  in  Masonry,  but  they  are  also  technically  called  the  furniture  of 
the  Lodge:  and  ....  it  is  held  that  there  is  no  Lodge  without  them." 

That  body  of  operatives  now  styling  themselves  Free-Ma- 
sons; that  body  of  inspirationists  styling  themselves  Christian 
Scientists;  those  astrologers,  astronomers,  geologists,  and 
mathematicians,  a  long  list  of  whom  find  Pyramid  and  Bible 
in  exact  accordance;  our  standard  text  books,  and  the  laws 
of  our  governings  —  either  these  are  wrong,  or  the  carven 
petals  of  the  Flower  of  Egypt  unfold  to  tell  a  different  story 
than  that  which  the  Holy  Bible  makes  so  manifest. 


THE  SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS 


i 


II 

N  THE  PREFACE  (page  vii,  lines  11-12),  of  Science  and 
Health^  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures ,  its  author,  Mary 
Baker  Eddy,  refers  to  the 

"...  daystar  of  divine  Science, 
lighting  the  way  to  eternal  harmony." 

"Harmony,"  in  the  Glossary  to  Science  and  Health,  with 
Key  to  the  Scriptures  (see  "Kingdom  of  Heaven,"  page 
590:1)  she  states  to  be  synonymous  with  the  Kingdom  of 
Heaven,  where  is  "  the  realm  of  unerring,  eternal,  and  om- 
nipotent Mind;  the  atmosphere  of  Spirit,  where  Soul  is  su- 
preme." 

The  Great  Pyramid  has  five  equal  corners,  and  all  of  its 
measurements  basically  are  fives  and  the  multiplications 
thereof.  The  focusing  point  of  the  laws  of  life,  itself  the  center 
of  the  known  earth,  pointing  with  utter  accuracy  at  midday 
to  the  central  system  of  lighting,  and  at  midnight  to  the 
"  throne"  seat  of  the  Universe's  system  of  articulation,  and  so 
marvelously  foretelling  the  birth  of  the  Christian  Dispensation 
in  astronomical  and  unit  measure  numerals,  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid symbolizes  the  five-pointed  Star  that  should  herald  the 
Birth, — "  the  daystar  of  divine  Science,  lighting  the  way  to 
eternal  harmony." 

It  is,  of  course,  an  engineering  fact,  or  a  fact  of  engineering 
knowledge,  that  all  building  is  on  certain  "pitch,"  or  "  tone," 
the  solidity  and  endurance  of  such  building  depending  on  its 
trueness  to  such  "tone,"  a  separate  "key"  to  each  building 
being  thus  provided.  In  the  light  of  this,  it  is  interesting  to 
recall  how  the  Israelites  accomplished  the  destruction  of  an 
inimical  city  by  walking  without  its  walls  and  all  blowing  in 
apparent  discordancy  upon  wind  instruments. 

The  Great  Pyramid  is  built  to  a  scale  of  10  feet  horizontal 


22  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

for  every  9  feet  of  perpendicular  rise  therefrom,  inclining  in- 
wards, thus: 


and  although  the  beautiful 
enamel  with  which  it  was  originally  surfaced  entirely  has 
been  largely  vandalized,  so  that  the  courses  of  masonry  rise 
now  vary  slightly  from  their  original  "pitch,"  still  sufficient 
of  the  whole  enamel  courses  remain  to  confirm  the  scale  of 
masonry  courses  of  the  structure  to  be  as  given  above.  This 
system  of  courses,  correlating  numerically  with  the  Biblical 
descriptions  of  the  pitch  of  the  Ark,  totals  (9  +  10)  19  units 
for  each  whole  course  upwards,  and  is  the  "pitch"  or  "scale" 
of  the  Great  Pyramid. 

Pythagoras,  of  Greece,  learned  of  this  scale  of  the  Great 
Pyramid  from  Amasis,  an  esoteric  of  Egypt,  under  whom  he 
studied;  and  returning  to  Greece,  where  he  founded  his  first 
"college,"  Pythagoras  attempted  to  assign  values  to  each 
numerical  degree  of  such  "scale."  In  so  far  as  these  "degrees" 
might  be  said  to  represent  a  mortal  presentation  of  birth  and 
life,  Pythagoras  was  partly  successful,  but  when  passing  the 
so-called  Consciousness  of  mortality  he  strove  in  the  realm  of 
real  Consciousness,  he  failed,  because  he  denied  to  the  author 
of  all  Consciousness,  God,  the  headstone  of  his  building, 
seeking  instead  to  enthrone  Pythagoras  thereat.  For  result 
Pythagoras  was  driven  from  Greece,  removing  his  college  to 
Cretona,  in  Italy.  However,  from  the  "scale"  of  the  Great 
Pyramid,  as  taught  him  by  Amasis  of  Egypt,  Pythagoras  did 
deduce  what  is  called  the  "Chromatic"  scale  of  music,  and 
which  scale,  consisting  of  nineteen  degrees,  is  the  accepted  scale 
of  musical  composition  to  this  day.  Challenged  by  the  incom- 
pleteness of  Pythagoras'  effort  to  produce  a  scale,  or  pitch,  of 
music,  which,  "truing"  the  building  of  the  Great  Pyramid, 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       23 

would  also  sequentially  "  true"  the  scale  of  that  which  the 
Great  Pyramid  manifestly  symbolizes.  Harmony  or  the  King- 
dom of  Life,  the  Kingdom  of  Knowledge  and  Wisdom,  let  the 
Holy  Bible  and  the  Great  Pyramid  take  up  the  gauge,  and  in 
their  own  given  language  of  Consciousness  proclaim  a  gamut 
of  Consciousness,  or  Harmony,  in  a  given  sequential  number 
of  states  of  such. 

These  nineteen  degrees,  then,  producing  this  Chromatic 
gamut  of  sound-motion,  may  for  purposes  of  illustration  be 
considered  simply  as  motion,  (not,  however,  the  result  of 
motion) ;  and  as  motion  solely,  become  consciously  expressed 
thus: 

The  first  State  unquestionably  of  which  we  have  Con- 
sciousness is  LIFE  itself.  The  second  State,  our  Relativity  to 
otherness.  Third,  the  State  of  Construction,  or  putting  to- 
gether. Fourth,  the  State  of  productivity,  or  Generation. 
Fifth,  automatically  the  State  of  Comprehension,  wherein 
we  analyze  and  synthesize  our  work.  Sixth,  the  State  of  At- 
traction, or  drawing  to  us,  or  to  otherness.  Seventh,  the 
State  of  change,  or  Mutation.  Eighth,  the  State  of  Comple- 
tion. And,  Ninth,  the  State  of  issuance,  or  EVOLUTION. 

Applying,  then,  such  States  of  Consciousness  to  conditions 
of  which  we  have  more  apparent  impressions,  let  us  observe 
the  states  of  foetal  birth  from  the  inception  of  Life  to  its  is- 
suance from  the  womb  of  the  mother,  realizing  at  the  same 
time  that  such  re-creation  is  but  the  inverted  reflection  of  the 
All,  and  only,  Creation,  produced  by  these  same  States  of 
Consciousness. 

The  month  units  (as  States)  of  foetal  birth  may  thus  be 
written: 

i:  LIFE. 

2:  RELATIVITY  (Life  relating). 

3:  CONSTRUCTION  (Life  constructing). 

4:  GENERATION  (Life  forming). 


24  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

5:  INCLUSION,  COMPREHENSION  (Life  including,  or 

comprehending) . 
6:  ATTRACTION  (Life  drawing  otherness  to  itself, 

and  drawing  to  otherness). 
7:  MUTATION  (At  this  period  the  now  constructed 

Life  within  the  womb  changes). 
8:  COMPLETION  (the  Life-within  complete). 
9:  BIRTH,  ISSUANCE,  EVOLUTION. 

These  States  producing  the  evolution  of  birth  are  so  gen- 
erally known  as  to  need  no  further  elucidation  here.  As  Con- 
sciousness States  they  govern  our  every  productivity,  from 
the  building  of  a  "castle"  on  the  sands  by  our  childish  hands 
to  the  throwing  of  a  vast  cantilever  bridge  across  a  foaming 
torrent.  But  a  moment's  intelligent  reflection,  and  the  lawyer 
at  the  bar,  the  clerk  at  his  desk,  the  carpenter  at  his  bench, 
and  the  foreman  in  the  shop,  must  realize  that  each  builds  up 
case,  or  report,  or  form,  or  job,  by  just  these  very  processes 
sequentially,  and  by  these  very  processes  only,which  processes 
are  here  definitely  named  the  first  nine  States  of  Conscious- 
ness. Further,  following  the  immediate  period  of  human  birth 
into  this  world,  again  the  processes  become  manifest  in 
month-units  and  year-units  of  our  life,  as  we  recognize  such. 

Between  the  figures  one  and  ought  are  comprized  all  the 
known  figures  of  the  numerical  system  from  one  to  nine;  con- 
sequently, this  one  and  ought  (or  10)  State  of  Consciousness 
sequentially  writes  its  name  CONSERVATION.  Again,  applying 
such  processes  to  those  processes  which  we  the  more  aptly 
humanly  observe,  the  loth  month,  following  upon  the  month 
of  issuance  from  the  mother  womb,  is  for  both  mother  and 
child  a  period  of  rest,  recuperation,  conservation.  Also  wit- 
ness the  10  commandments,  conserved  on  two  tablets  of  stone; 
the  10  fingers  and  toes  ending,  or  conserving,  the  limbs  of  the 
body. 

Consciousness  State  number  n,  automatically  and  pri- 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       25 

marily  derives  its  designation  from  the  repetition  of  the 
figures  one  and  one  (n),  which  figures  in  all  mathematical 
demonstration  wherein  used  call  for  repetitive  processes.  To 
multiply  by  the  number  eleven,  we  write  the  two  figures  to  be 
multiplied  as  a  result,  then  place  between  such  two  figures 
the  "repeated,"  or  added  together,  figures  themselves.  Thus, 

33  times  n  is— 3  and— 3+3,  or  6,  and  3;  or  363. 

34  times  1 1  is  — 3  and  — 3  +4,  or  7,  and  4;  or  374. 

and  so  forth.  So  this  nth  State  of  Consciousness  becomes 
classified  in  our  list  of  Consciousness  States  as  Repetition,  or 
RE-VOLUTION. 

In  this  connection  it  is  interesting  corroboratively  to  recall 
that  the  sealed  hour  of  the  cyclean  Revolution,  called  the 
World  War,  just  witnessed,  was  signalized  in  a  document  be- 
coming effective  on  the  eleventh  hour  of  the  eleventh  day  of  the 
eleventh  month,  of  that  year  whose  numerals  read  7-9-7-8. 

The  1 2th  State  of  Consciousness  is  obviously  written  in- 
turning,  or  INVOLUTION.  Witness  the  12  hours  of  the  day;  the 
12  inches  to  the  foot  measure;  the  12  apostles;  the  12  degrees 
of  the  diatonic  scale;  the  12  stepping  stones  across  the  River 
Jordan;  the  12  months  of  the  year;  the  12  foundations  of  the 
new  Jerusalem;  the  12  members  of  the  jury; — all  suggesting 
to  us  a  state  of  in-drawing,  in-turning,  or  IN-VOLUTION.  At 
this  period  of  life,  the  pupil  or  child,  as  is  known  generally  to 
teacher  and  parent  becomes  ruminative,  such  inturning  often 
manifesting  itself  in  moodiness,  brooding,  or  so-called  "  ab- 
sent-mindedness." It  was  symbolically,  too,  at  this  age  of 
12  years  that  the  child,  Jesus,  turned  from  His  parents  into 
the  temple  where  was  learning,  so  that  those  parents  had 
much  ado  to  find  Him  again. 

It  is  to  be  regarded  in  the  enumerating  of  these  States  of 
Consciousness,  that  having  passed  the  ninth  unit,  the  pro- 
cesses leading  to  which  are  the  more  apparent  to  our  so-called 
physical  senses,  we  are  now  arrived  in  the  realm  of  the  in- 


26  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

tangible,  wherein  we  can  prove  such  things  as  we  can  neither 
taste,  touch,  nor  smell,  only  by  that  process  of  demonstra- 
tion known  as  the  Process  of  Elimination.  Nevertheless,  these 
States  of  Consciousness  have  so  in-written  themselves  on  our 
knowledge  during  the  four  thousand  odd  years  of  our  believed- 
in  national,  economic  life,  that  in  general  the  very  mention  of 
the  numeral  of  such  State  conveys  its  meaning  almost  with- 
out the  necessity  of  further  elucidation. 

Thus,  automatically  the  mention  of  the  number  13  suggests 
to  us  the  State  of  Parturition, — of  separation,  of  death, 
of  going  forth.  The  Last  Supper  witnessed  13  at  the  table, 
which  supper  foreran  the  expiation  at  Golgotha.  But,  and 
showing  too  that  only  the  merest  thread  really  divides  the 
polarities  of  what  we  call  life,  the  I3th  month  becomes  the 
period  wherein  the  gentle,  nourishment-giving  kine  of 
the  field  produce  their  young.  Thus  write  we  the  I3th  State 
of  Consciousness  the  State  of  Consciousness  of  PARTURITION, 
which  suggests  Birth  or  Separation  to  us  as  do  we  think  of 
such. 

The  1 4th  process  is  admittedly  the  period  of  re-creation. 
At  the  age  of  14  puberty  asserts  itself.  The  three  periods  of  14 
each,  as  told  in  the  genealogy  of  Jesus  the  Christ,  mark  the 
three  epochs  in  history  to  such  time.  The  14  stages  of  the 
Cross  record  the  stations  whereby  the  Passenger  traversed 
the  route  to  his  re-creative  processes.  Thus  14  becomes 
designated  in  our  list  of  Consciousness  States  as  RE-CREA- 
TION. 

Immediately  following  this  period  of  Re-creation,  which 
is  numerically  arrived  at  by  the  addition  of  two  sevens, 
or  Mutations,  we  automatically  come  to  a  State  of  Loca- 
tion, stability,  permanency;  and  so  again,  without  incredu- 
lous analysis,  this  State  of  Consciousness  names  itself  the 
State  of  LOCATION,  having  arrived  at  such  state  by  a  process 
of  mounting  five  courses  of  threes,  or  15, — that  is,  five  pro- 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       27 

cesses  of  construction  (3)  aggregating  a  permanency,  even  as 
the  Great  Pyramid,  the  place  of  Location  of  presentation  of 
the  active  and  reactive  laws  of  the  earth,  in  its  construction 
has  five  exterior  sides,  and  as  has  the  King's  Coffer  also  five 
external  sides. 

Thus,  located,  or  established,  the  next  Conscious  move- 
ment would  be  in  the  nature  of  function  purely;  and  so  to  this 
State,  wherein  in  mortal  thought-processes  the  functioning 
of  sex-impulse  becomes  first  generally  manifest,  we  logically 
assign  the  name  FUNCTION. 

The  1 7th  period  of  life  may  be  said  to  witness  the  process  of 
choice  on  our  parts  toward  the  continuance  of  education  at 
some  University,  or  similar  institution,  or  towards  entrance 
into  the  field  of  labor  or  business,  or  profession.  Also,  the  nu- 
meral 17  is  rich  in  allusions  concerning  tuitional  choice.  In 
the  year  2-77-0,  as  stated  by  the  stars  and  by  itself,  the 
Great  Pyramid  presented  its  lore  to  mortal  man  for  the  un- 
raveling. In  the  latter  part  of  the  century  bearing  the  numer- 
al 17  the  King's  Chamber  of  the  Pyramid  was  discovered, 
by  the  then  British  Consul  at  Algiers.  In  the  year  77-76  was 
born  that  country  which  announced  itself  as  for  the  Father- 
hood of  God  in  its  acknowledgment  of  the  Brotherhood  of 
man  in  that  famous  document,  known  as  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  of  the  13  original  States  of  the  United  States, 
on  which  is  engraved  a  large  reproduction  of  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid with  the  All-seeing  Eye  over  it,  and  which  declares  that, 

"We  hold  these  truths  to  be  self-evident,  that  all  men  are  created  equal, 
that  they  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  unalienable  Rights, 
that  among  these  are  Life,  Liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  Happiness." 

Finally,  in  the  year  19-77  this  same  country  of  the  United 
States  of  America  entered  the  World  War  to  make  good  those 
words  captioned  by  the  Great  Pyramid  with  the  All-seeing 
Eye  over  it.  Therefore,  this  I7th  State  of  Consciousness  may 


28  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

without  hesitation  be  named  the  State  of  Tuition,  and  as 
real  learning  is  purely  volitional,  such  State  also  may  be 
classed  the  State  of  Inclination,  or  Selection. 

At  the  eighteenth  period  of  mortal  year  life  co-ordination 
asserts  itself,  and  at  such  age  we  legally  allow  to  the  woman 
the  choice  of  natural  selection,  adjudging  her  thereby  suf- 
ficiently co-ordinate  to  become  mistress  of  her  own  actions, 
although  we  pay  the  male  the  compliment  of  assigning  a 
three-year  later  period  as  the  probable  time  of  his  ability  to 
take  care  of  himself.  The  i8th  State  of  Consciousness  then 
becomes  the  State  of  CO-ORDINATION,  or  Co-operation. 

Volitionally,  we  have  now  scaled  the  entire  courses  of 
masonry  chromatically, — that  is,  in  Harmony,  which  is 
truthfully.  So  that  this  last  State  of  Consciousness  going  to 
complete  the  Great  Pyramid's  "pitch"  names  itself  the  State 
of  VOLITION.  This  State  is  also  manifested  in  our  year-periods 
of  mortal  life,  for  therein  at  the  age  of  19  we  are  first  generally 
allowed  somewhat  of  free  choice  in  the  matter  of  our  future 
habits  and  our  present  desires. 

Thus,  numerizing  and  classifying  the  "pitch"  of  the  Ark, 
as  demonstrated  in  the  Chromaticism  of  19  degrees  of  Con- 
sciousness, we  write: 

Consciousness  State 

No.  i:  LIFE  (Being). 
2:  RELATION. 
3:  CONSTRUCTION. 
4:  GENERATION. 
5:  COMPREHENSION. 
6:  ATTRACTION. 
7:  MUTATION. 
8:  COMPLETION. 
9:  EVOLUTION. 
10 :  CONSERVATION. 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       29 

n:  REVOLUTION. 
12:  INVOLUTION. 
13:  PARTURITION. 
14:  RECREATION. 
15:  LOCATION. 
16:  FUNCTION. 
17:  TUITION. 
18:  CO-ORDINATION. 
19:  VOLITION. 

It  has  been  stated  before  in  this  work,  and  is  of  course  at 
once  apparent,  that  the  figures  one  and  ought  (10)  compre- 
hend, or  conserve,  between  them  all  and  entire  of  our  nu- 
merical system  of  figures,  and  that  all  other  combinations  of 
figures  are  merely  repetitions  of  such  figures  sequentially 
from  one  to  ought.  Hence,  it  should  follow  that,  reading 
such  figures  as  one  and  one,  one  and  two,  and  so  forth,  these 
combinations  should  be  self-corroborative  of  the  Conscious- 
ness States  of  each  numeration.  In  the  application  of  this 
test,  the  nine  original  States  of  Consciousness,  from  LIFE  to 
EVOLUTION,  of  course  stand  as  numbered  singly,  and  Con- 
sciousness State  number  10  being  the  Consciousness  State 
of  CONSERVATION,  we  start  our  test  logically  with  the  num- 
ber eleven,  which  for  purposes  of  this  illustration  we  consider 
one  and  one. 

Consciousness  State  No.  1 1 :  One  and  one  (foretelling  RELA- 
TIONSHIP, two),  LIFE-BEING,  or 
Life  re-voluting  about  itself: 
RE-VOLUTION. 

Consciousness  State  No.  12:  One  and  two  (foretelling  CON- 
STRUCTION, three),  LIFE-RELAT- 
ING, or  Life  turning  in  on  itself: 
IN-VOLUTION. 


3o  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Consciousness  State  No.  13:  One  and  three  (which  tells  of 

Generation,  four),  LIFE-CON- 
STRUCTING: Birth  or  PARTUR- 
ITION. 

Consciousness  State  No.  14:  One  and  four  (foretelling  Com- 
prehension, five),  LIFE-GENER- 
ATING: Creation,  and  RE-CREA- 
TION. 

Consciousness  State  No.  15:  One  and  five  (foretelling  Attrac- 
tion, six)y  LIFE-INCLUDING,  or 

LlFE-COMPREHENDING:      LoCA- 

TION,  Under-standing. 

Consciousness  State  No.  16:  One  and  six  (foretelling  Muta- 
tion, seven),  LIFE-ATTRACTING: 
Functioning,  FUNCTION. 

Consciousness  State  No.  17:  One  and  seven  (foretelling  Com- 
pletion, £/££/),  Li FE-MUTATING: 
TUITION,  Selection. 

Consciousness  State  No.  18:  One  and  eight  (foretelling  Evolu- 
tion, nine))  LIFE-COMPLETING: 
Co-ordination,  or  co-operation: 
CO-ORDINATION. 

Consciousness  State  No.  19:  One  and  nine  (foretelling  Con- 
servation, ten)  the  starting  point 
and  finish,  for  the  first  shall  al- 
ways be  last  and  the  last  first), 
LIFE-EVOLUTIONAL:  and  as  pro- 
cess of  issuance  with  the  babe 
from  the  womb,  the  chick  from 
the  shell,  the  martyr  from  cross 
and  stake,  must  always  be 
purely  volitional, — VOLITION. 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       31 

Thus  the  analysis  and  synthesis  of  those  States  of  Conscious- 
ness as  the  scale  of  the  building  of  the  Great  Pyramid. 
Finally,  at  the  risk  of  becoming  tedious  in  the  repetitive  elu- 
cidation of  what  is  so  utterly  obvious,  but  to  substantiate 
the  statement  that  the  Great  Pyramid  and  Holy  Bible  are  in 
utter  agreement  on  these  States  of  Consciousness,  and  by 
such  substantiation  to  acknowledge  the  truth  of  that  Free- 
Masonic  statement,  before  cited,  that  without  Holy  Bible 
and  Square  and  Compass  (the  tools  of  the  Pyramid  Builder) 
there  is  no  Lodge,  it  becomes  necessary  to  look  for  a  cor- 
roboration  of  these  Pyramidal  States  of  Consciousness  in  the 
Holy  Bible,  and  for  this  purpose  the  account  of  creation 
therein  should,  if  anywhere,  furnish  the  necessary  data. 

Turning  to  the  first  Book  of  the  Bible,  and  the  first  chapter 
of  such  Book,  we  read: 

-In  the  beginning  God  created 
the  heaven  and  the  earth. 

Genesis  i  [LIFE]:  I  [LIFE] 

As  there  is  no  mention  in  this  verse  of  aught  but  Life  itself, 
we  are  justified  in  naming  this  first  State  of  Creation  as 
nothing  other  than  LIFE. 
And  in  the  following  verse: 

And  the  earth  was  without 
form,  and  void;  and  darkness 
was  upon  the  face  of  the  deep. 
And  the  Spirit  of  God  moved 
upon  the  face  of  the  waters. 

Genesis  i  [LIFE]:  2  [RELATING] 

The  first  sentence  of  this  verse  states  of  mere  existence;  but 
finally,  of  action,  or  movement,  following  upon  this  mere  ex- 
istence to  correlate  the  same.  Therefore,  Creation  names  this 
second  State  of  its  activities,  RELATION. 
From  this  verse  to  verse  6  (Attraction)  of  this  chapter  we 


32  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

now  read  of  the  various  activities  of  relativity  in  division  and 
subdivision;  but  at  verse  6  (twice  three)  we  read: 

And  God  said,  Let  there 

be  a  firmament  in  the  midst  of 

the  waters, 

Genesis  I  [LIFE]:  6  [ATTRACTING] 

Thus  this  third  State  of  its  activities  Creation  names  CON- 
STRUCTION. 

In  the  verse  just  prior  to  this,  as  in  regularly  intervaled 
and  sequentially  numerated  periods,  we  read: 

.     .     .     .    And  the  evening  and 
the  morning  were  the  first  day. 

Genesis  i  [LIFE]:  5  [COMPREHENDING] 

The  word  night,  the  period  of  darkness,  being  so  emphatically 
left  out  of  this  account  of  Creation  wherein  is  morning  made  a 
continuance  of  evening,  it  is  as  though  the  Holy  Bible  and 
Great  Pyramid  refused  to  take  any  account  of  such  period 
as  darkness.  And  as  Darkness  is  the  father  of  ignorance, 
blindness,  and  consequent  mistakes,  it  is  as  though  Bible 
and  Pyramid  reiterated,  Here  are  no  mistakes  in  our  pre- 
sentation, for  "Every  good  and  every  perfect  gift  .... 
cometh  down  from  the  Father  of  lights,  with  whom  is  no 
variableness,  neither  shadow  of  turning."  James  i  [LIFE, 
LIGHT]:  17  [TUITION]. 

Now  from  verse  6  [Attraction]  to  verse  10  [Conservation] 
we  read  simply  of  the  construction  of  the  firmament  as  water 
and  land;  until  we  come  to  verse  1 1  [Re- volution],  wherein  we 

read: 

And  God  said,  Let  the  earth 
bring  forth  grass,  the  herb 
yielding  seed,  and  the  fruit  tree 
yielding  fruit  after  his  kind, 
whose  seed  is  in  itself,  upon  the 
earth:  and  it  was  so. 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       33 

Obviously  the  period,  or  State,  of  the  Consciousness  of 
Bringing-forth,  GENERATION. 

From  verses  12  to  19,  inclusive,  is  the  account  of  the  com- 
prehending all  Creation  with  Light,  encircling  the  same  with 
lights  in  both  periods  of  day  and  night;  so  that  this  Con- 
sciousness of  Creation  names  itself  COMPREHENSION. 

From  verse  20  on,  we  read  now  of  a  period  of  the  sexing  of 
creation,  and  the  divisions  of  such  into  species,  culminating 
with  verse  22  [Relation],  wherein  are  we  told: 

And  God  blessed  them,  say- 
ing, Be  fruitful,  and  multiply, 
and  fill  the  waters  in  the  seas, 
and  let  fowl  multiply  in  the 
earth. 

And  finally  the  crowning  of  Creation,  read  of  in  verses  26 
[Relation-Attractive]  and  27  [Relation-Mutative]: 

And  God  said,  Let  us 
make  man  in  our  image,  after 
our  likeness:  and  let  them 
have  dominion  over  the  fish  of 
the  sea,  and  over  the  fowl  of 
the  air,  and  over  the  cattle,  and 
over  all  the  earth,  and  over 
every  creeping  thing  that  creep- 
eth  upon  the  earth. 

So  God  created  man  in  his 
own  image,  in  the  image  of  God 
created  he  him;  male  and 
female  created  he  them. 

These  verses  22-26-27  are  so  obvious  in  their  expression  of 
Like  attracting  to  Like,  that  obviously  this  State  of  Crea- 
tional  Consciousness  writes  itself  the  State  of  ATTRACTION. 
Thus,  in  the  first  chapter  of  the  first  book  of  the  Holy  Bible, 
the  Chapter  of  Life  (i)  and  Book  of  Life  (i),  we  find  a 


34  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

succinct  number  of  States  of  Consciousness  recorded  thus: 

Consciousness  State 

No.  i:  LIFE:  Being. 

2:  RELATION  of  that  Life. 
3:  CONSTRUCTION  by  that  Life. 
4:  That  Life  GENERATING. 
5:  That  Life  all-lighted,  COMPREHENSION. 
6:  That  Life  gathered  in  species,  or  brought 
together;  Like  to  Like;  ATTRACTION. 

Continuing,  Biblically,  we  read  in  Genesis,  chapter  2  (Rela- 
tion), verse  i  (Life), — that  is,  now,  the  Relativity  produced 
by  Life — made  Alive,  .... 

Thus  the  heavens  and  the 
earth  were  finished,  and 
all  the  host  of  them. 

And  in  verse  2  of  chapter  2, — [Relativity  related,  or  ac- 
complished],— 

And  on  the  seventh  day 

God  ended  his  work  which  he 

had  made;  and  he  rested  on 

the  seventh  day  from  all  his 

work  which  he  had  made. 

Thus,  Creation  inter-related,  this  State  of  Consciousness  im- 
mediately following  now  records  itself  as  MUTATION,  or 
Change.  For  as  the  word  "night"  is,  as  already  remarked, 
emphatically  omitted  from  the  story  of  God's  activities 
creatively, — darkness  being  produced  solely  by  the  removal 
of  Light  therefrom,  and  again,  in  the  account  of  the  creation 
of  Light,  dispelled  thereby, — it  is  patent  that  the  word 
"day"  is  intended  to  refer  to  a  continuous  period  of  action, 
or  State  of  Consciousness,  rather  than  to  a  subdivision  of 
weekly  time;  a  deduction  further  confirmed  in  the  5th  [Com- 
prehension] verse  of  the  ist  [Life]  chapter  of  Genesis: 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       35 

And  God  called  the  light 
Day,  and  the  darkness  he  called 
Night.  And  the  evening  and 
the  morning  were  the  first  day. 

Here,  again,  is  night  most  obviously  omitted  from  the  ac- 
count of  the  activities  of  Him  who,  watching  over  Israel, 
"neither  slumbers  nor  sleeps."  So  that,  as  plainly  as 
can  be  stated,  the  word  "day"  is  used  in  the  account  of  all 
Creation  as  referring  to  a  State,  or  period,  of  activity;  and  as 
the  activities  of  God  are  manifestly  purely  mental,  and  not  of 
the  nature  of  manual  labor,  such  "day"  registers  itself  un- 
questionably as  a  State  of  Consciousness. 

The  Seventh  State  of  Consciousness,  then,  according  to  the 
account  of  Creation  as  told  in  the  Holy  Bible,  records  itself  as 
the  Consciousness  of  Mutation.  And  as  this  State  is  recorded 
at  once  as  completing  God's  activities  of  Creation,  the  sub- 
sequent Eighth  State  of  Consciousness,  wherein  was  given  to 
Adam  the  naming  of  God's  creation,  thereby  setting  the  seal 
on  the  work,  as  it  were,  the  only  term  possible  to  such  State 
of  Consciousness  is  COMPLETION. 

At  the  ninth  period  of  the  events  of  the  World's  history 
(the  number  of  the  period  of  issuance  from  the  mother  womb) 
we  become  apprised,  following  the  creation  of  man^  of  the 
sending  forth  of  the  rivers  to  encompass  and  water  the  land  so 
that  the  latter  may  re-create  itself;  whereby  this  Ninth  State 
of  Consciousness  is  named  Issuance,  or  E-VOLUTION.  (It  was 
the  Ninth  Hour  on  the  Cross  which  signalized  the  process  of 
Evolution  therefrom,  in  blood  and  water.)  And,  as  in  the  im- 
mediately following  State  of  the  activities  of  Creation  we 
learn  that  these  Rivers  encompassed  the  Garden,  we  again 
corroborate  our  Tenth  (10)  State  of  Consciousness  Biblically 
with  the  name  CONSERVATION. 

Here,  then,  we  have  traversed  our  horizontal  course  of 
masonry,  which  in  the  Great  Pyramid  is  10  feet  in  length,  and 


36  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

have  arrived  at  the  State  of  Conservation,  between  the  figures 
numerating  which  are  all  the  known  numerals  to  us,  from  i 
to  9.  And  as  subsequent  numerals  become  simply  repetitive 
combinations  of  these  first  nine  figures,  out  of  respect  to  the 
reader's  patience  it  is  here  assumed  that  sufficient  corrobor- 
ation  of  Pyramidal  "pitch"  has  been  afforded  by  the  activ- 
ities of  Creation  as  told  in  the  first  and  second  chapter  of 
the  first  book  of  that  work  which  we  call  Holy  Bible. 

The  name  of  Solomon, — sometime  King  of  Israel, — stands 
pre-eminently  to  all  men, — even  such  as  have  never  inter- 
ested themselves  in  the  Biblical  history  of  this  famous 
monarch, — as  the  synonym  of  Wisdom.  The  exact  time  of  the 
reign  of  this  sovereign  is  a  matter  of  grave  theological  dispute 
to  this  day,  but  it  is  generally  accepted  that  he  built  "the 
Temple." 

In  verse  17  (Tuition)  of  the  9th  [Evolution]  chapter  of 
i  Kings,  is  stated,— 


And  Solomon  built  Gezer, 


This  same  statement  occurs  also  in  the  I5th  [Location]  verse 
of  this  same  chapter.  Gezer,  or  Gezeh,  happens  to  be  the 
name  of  that  group  of  three  Pyramids  of  which  the  Great 
Pyramid  is  the  central  building,  and  the  King's  Chamber  in 
which,  as  well  as  the  King's  Coffer  in  the  King's  Chamber  in 
which,  correspond  exactly  in  cubit  measurement  to  the  Ark  of 
the  Tabernacle,  and  the  Molten  Sea,  in  the  Temple  which 
King  Solomon  is  accredited  with  building.  Further,  a  com- 
parison of  descriptions  of  the  building  of  the  Temple  will  be 
found  to  compare  severally  and  jointly  with  the  dimensions  of 
the  Great  Pyramid,  which  latter  structure  it  is  scientifically 
admitted  was  designed  and  constructed  for  just  such  purpose 
as  Solomon's  Temple  was  obviously  intended  for.  It  is  also 
clearly  stated,  in  the  account  of  this  same  building  of  the 
Temple  by  Solomon,  that  there  was  heard  in  such  activities 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       37 

incidental  to  the  Temple's  erection  no  sound  of  hammer  or 
axe,  or  any  tool  necessary  to  the  building  of  such  a  structure 
as  that  told  of  literally  in  the  descriptions  of  the  building  of 
Solomon's  Temple. 

And  the  house,  when  it  was 

in  building,  was  built  of  stone 

made  ready  before  it  was 

brought  thither:  so  that  there 

was  neither  hammer  nor  axe 

nor  any  tool  of  iron  heard  in 

the  house,  while  it  was  in 

building. 

i  Kings:  6  [Attraction,  or  Double  Construction] 

If  the  sound  of  hammer,  axe,  and  the  tools  of  building  were 
not  heard  during  the  process  of  building,  it  is  hardly  suppos- 
able  that  they  would  be  heard  merrily  ringing  away  in  busy 
activity  after  the  building  was  completed  and  dedicated.  All 
of  which,  of  course,  argues  that  the  House  of  the  Lord,  which 
we  conceive  to  be  the  Temple  built  by  Solomon,  was  of  a  dif- 
ferent timber,  or  timbre,  than  that  literally  described  in  such 
obvious  detail  in  the  Holy  Bible, — was  in  fact  more  "mason- 
ically"  constructed  than  that  wooden  building  that  we  imag- 
ine the  Temple  of  Solomon. 

However,  leaving  such  argument  to  come  up  in  its  proper 
place  in  this  work,  suffice  it  for  the  moment  that  the  building 
of  this  Temple  and  the  King's  house  are  said  in  the  9th 
[Evolutional]  chapter  of  the  first  Book  of  Kings, — which 
chapter  tells  of  the  birth  of  the  completed  building,  following 
upon  its  dedication  in  the  preceding  chapter  [Completion], 
—to  have  occupied  the  space  of  twenty  years;  and  as  Solo- 
mon is  to  this  day  synonymous  with  Wisdom,  we  must  logi- 
cally suppose  those  twenty  years  to  have  been  wisely  ex- 
pended, and  to  have  been  necessary  to  construction  of  such 
magnitude. 


38  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

The  Great  Pyramid,  as  has  been  stated,  scales  to  its  height 
of  5822  earth-commensurated  inches  by  a  series  of  masonry 
courses,  which  courses  give  to  it  its  timbre,  or  tone.  These 
courses,  as  has  also  been  stated,  are  constructed  of  large 
blocks  of  stone,  being  laid  over  each  other  upward  on  a  scale 
of  10  feet  of  horizontal  for  every  9  feet  of  perpendicular, 
wherefrom  was  conceived  the  degrees  of  the  Chromatic  scale 
of  music,  and  from  which,  as  corroborated  by  Holy  Bible, 
have  we  in  this  offering  drawn  the  classification  of  our  Nine- 
teen States  of  Consciousness.  To  this  scale  of  10-9  (19),  the 
Great  Pyramid  squares  the  circle;  which  is  to  say,  that  its 
height,  used  as  the  radius  of  a  circle,  would  describe  a  sphere 
whose  circumference  would  be  equal  to  the  four  sides  of  the 
square  base  of  the  Great  Pyramid.  In  other  words,  using  the 
Great  Pyramidal  figure  as  that  of  a  compass  (which  it  is),  an 
encompass  could  be  drawn  by  such  compass,  using  such  com- 
pass height  as  the  radius  of  the  encompass,  as  would  equal 
spherically  the  lineal  measurement  of  four  lines  correspond- 
ing to  the  base  of  which  this  compass  was  the  height. 

Now  the  Great  Pyramid,  as  it  stands,  is  a  building  ob- 
viously yet  incomplete,  inasmuch  as  its  chief  corner  stone,  its 
capstone,  is  missing.  By  the  use  of  the  word  chief  in  this  con- 
nection, the  Bible  evidently  intends  to  convey  just  what  such 
word  signifies, — topmost,  or  most  important,  stone;  and 
this  stone,  we  are  told  in  the  New  Testament,  as  well  as  in 
the  Old  Testament,  was  rejected  of  the  builders.  And  as  the 
weight  of  this  stone  is  specifically  referred  to  as  of  measure 
sufficient  to  "grind  to  powder  that  on  which  it  falls,"  it  is  ob- 
viously too  heavy  to  have  been  blown  from  its  lofty  chief 
place  by  windstorm,  or  removed  therefrom  by  prowling 
Dervish.  Consequently,  we  are  by  process  of  elimination 
obliged  to  assume  that  the  expression  "rejected"  is  the  sole 
explanation  of  its  absence  from  the  whole  structure. 

And,  indeed,  when  one  comes  to  carefully  consider  "rejec- 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       39 

tion"  in  its  fullness,  it  is  the  very  essential  to  "acceptation. " 
It  was  by  the  "rejection"  of  the  Nazarene  that  His  teaching 
came  to  have  Universal  "acceptation";  the  "rejection"  of  a 
lover  but  incites  the  latter  to  greater  efforts  toward  "accep- 
tation"; the  "rejection"  of  the  "juice"  by  the  compactness  of 
the  electrical  coil  but  incites  the  former  to  brighter  and  hot- 
ter effort. 

Generally,  therefore,  there  are  three  motives  governing  our 
rejection  of  an  object  or  subject; — because  its  cost  in  effort  or 
measure  is  felt  to  be  unwarranted  (even  as  the  rich  young 
man  in  Scriptures  rejected  the  Cross  offered  him  by  Jesus),  or 
through  ignorance  of  the  value  of  the  object  or  subject  of- 
fered, or  so  that  its  very  absence  may  call  attention  to  such 
object  or  subject  more  loudly  than  could  its  presence.  And 
when  one  stops  to  consider  even  remotely  the  marvels  of  the 
Great  Pyramid's  geometrizing  and  orientation,  its  situation, 
and  the  fact  that  its  vast  mass  of  masonry  is  built  of  sub- 
stances that  no  discovered  quarries  in  that  land  afford,  it 
seems  painfully  obvious  that  the  builders  of  such  left  the 
chief  corner  stone  off  the  summit  of  the  building  for  only  such 
sufficient  reason  as  that  this  "rejection"  would  call  attention 
to  that  corner  stone  by  its  very  absence  from  the  place  where 
evidently  it  was  designed  to  be. 

Wherefore,  if  such  reason  induced  the  builders  to  "reject" 
such  corner  stone,  it  is  equally  obvious  that  their  purpose  of 
calling  special  attention  to  the  same  could  only  be  accom- 
plished by  placing  it  at  some  obvious  where  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  structure,  whereby  the  searcher  for  knowledge  would, 
guided  by  Wisdom,  be  likely  to  look  for  the  same. 

Practically  just  before  the  Great  Pyramid,  facing  such  on- 
coming seeker  for  Knowledge,  is  the  silent,  ever-watchful 
figure  of  the  Sphinx,  the  "eternal  riddle."  This  figure  of  the 
Sphinx,  so  called,  is  upon  a  base,  which  base  if  lifted  thereon 
would  be  found  to  fit  in  place  as  the  capstone,  or  chief  corner 


40  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

stone,  of  the  Great  Pyramid.  But  the  placing  of  such  thereon 
would  either  destroy  the  TT  (pi)  value  given  by  the  Great 
Pyramid's  squaring  of  the  circle,  or  change  the  number  of  its 
timbre,  the  Chromatic  scale  of  its  being. 

Now,  referring  to  the  fact  that,  as  was  shown  in  Part  One 
(The  Flower  of  Egypt)  of  this  offering,  the  unit  of  measure- 
ment in  the  Great  Pyramid  has  been  scientifically  accepted 
as  identical  with  the  standard  year  measure, — that  is  an 
inch,  or  foot,  for  a  year, — it  is  interesting  to  note  that  Solo- 
mon the  Wise  took  twenty  years  in  the  building  of  the  Lord's 
and  the  King's  house,  for  when  the  rejected  corner  stone  of 
the  Building  is  in  place  the  Pyramid  can  not  square  the  circle 
to  the  given  number  of  its  courses  unless  the  measurements  of 
such  are  changed.  And  this  change  automatically  suggests  it- 
self to  become  10  feet  level  to  10  feet  of  rise.  That  is,  a  foot  is 
to  be  added  to  each  separate  course,  whereby  the  19  Chro- 
matic scale  would  become  a  20  Chromatic  scale.  Also,  in  line 
with  this,  it  is  perfectly  known  that  master  composers  of 
"grand"  music  have  long  labored  under  the  impression  that 
another  degree  could  profitably  be  added  to  the  already 
known  19  degrees  of  the  musical  scale. 

Thus,  as  the  former  builders  of  the  Great  Pyramid  rejected 
the  chief  corner  stone,  let  it  here  receive  recognition;  and  in 
honor  to  the  Inspirer  of  all  Knowledge,  let  such  State  become 
named  in  our  list  by  natural  process  as  Godhead,  the  State 
perfect  of  REALIZATION;  for  without  REALIZATION  could  such 
corner  stone  never  become  known  to  man,  and  without 
REALIZATION  would  be  neither  corner  stone  nor  man. 

Thus,  finally,  do  the  completed  States  of  Consciousness 
announce  themselves, — 

Consciousness  State 

No.  i :  LIFE,  Being. 
2:  RELATION. 
3:  CONSTRUCTION. 


SONG  OF  THE  MORNING  STARS       41 

4:  GENERATION. 

5:  COMPREHENSION. 

6:  ATTRACTION. 

7:  MUTATION. 

8:  COMPLETION. 

9:  EVOLUTION. 
10 :  CONSERVATION. 
n:  RE-VOLUTION. 
12:  IN-VOLUTION. 
13:  PARTURITION. 
14:  RE-CREATION. 
15:  LOCATION. 
16:  FUNCTION. 
17:  TUITION  (Direction). 
18:  CO-ORDINATION  (Co-operation). 
19:  VOLITION. 
20:  REALIZATION. 

Or,  as  was  previously  done,  when  the  first  numeral  of  the 
combined  numerals  after  that  of  10  was  considered  always 
as  Life- 1,  Life-2,  etc., — 

Consciousness  State 
No.  i :  LIFE  is  expressed  by  1 1 :  REVOLUTION. 

2:  RELATION  is  expressed  by  12:  INVOLUTION. 

3:  CONSTRUCTION  is  expressed  by  13:  PARTURITION 

(Birth). 

4:  GENERATION  is  expressed  by  14:  RE-CREATION. 
5:  COMPREHENSION  is  expressed  by  15:  LOCATION 

(Place  of  5-pointed  Star). 
6:  ATTRACTION  is  expressed  by  16:  FUNCTION. 
7:  MUTATION,  Transition,  is  expressed  by  17:  TUI- 
TION, DIRECTION. 

8:  COMPLETION  is  expressed  by  18:  CO-ORDINATION. 
9:  EVOLUTION  is  expressed  by  19:  VOLITION. 
And  last, 


42  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Consciousness  State  No.  20:  REALIZATION. 

But  Life,  which  is  Re-volution,  is  itself  REALIZATION.  So 
that  the  identities  of  God,  Father,  and  the  Christ,  become,  as 
said  Jesus,  "one,"  for  the  first  becomes  last,  and  the  last  first, 
as  said  John  in  Revelation  i  (Life) :  1 1  (Revolution) : 

Saying,  I  am  Alpha  and 
Omega,  the  first  and  the  last:  .... 
and, 

I  am  Alpha  and  Omega,  the 
beginning  and  the  ending,  saith 
the  Lord,  .... 

Revelation  i  [LIFE]:  8  [COMPLETION] 

Thus,  with  God,  Father,  acknowledged  in  the  Building  of 
Life,  is  that  structure  complete,  at  which  completion,  spake 
God  to  his  servant  Job,  the  song  of  the  morning  stars  was 
heard, — Melody,  Harmony,  and  COUNTER-POINT. 

Whereupon  are  the  founda- 
tions thereof  fastened  ?  or 
who  laid  the  corner  stone 
thereof; 
Job  38  [COMPLETION]:  6  [DOUBLE  CONSTRUCTION] 

When  the  morning  stars 
sang  together,  and  all  the 
sons  of  God  shouted  for  joy? 
Job  38  [COMPLETION]:  7  [TRANSITION — Joy] 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD 


Ill 

....  and  all  the 

sons  of  God  shouted  for  joy. 
Job  38  [COMPLETION:  TRANSITION — Joy] 

THUS  FAR  in  this  offering  has  been  unfolded  the  petals 
of  the  Flower  of  Egypt  by  the  song  of  the  Morning 
Star  of  Divine  Science;  and  it  is  now  that  the  sons  of 
God  should  give  forth  their  paean  of  joy  at  the  completion  of 
the  Building.  But  who,  then,  are  these  sons  of  God?  And, 
first,  Who,  or  What,  is  God?  So  again  does  it  become  neces- 
sary to  revert  to  the  Holy  Bible  for  the  necessary  informa- 
tion, trusting  to  the  Great  Pyramid  for  numerical  confirma- 
tion of  what  the  Holy  Bible  reveals. 

In  the  first  verse  [Life]  of  the  first  chapter  [Life]  of  the 
Gospel  according  to  St.  John,  we  read  this  brief  statement: 

In  the  beginning  was  the 
Word,  and  the  Word  was 
with  God,  and  the  Word  was 
God. 

A  statement  so  succinct,  so  clear,  so  singly  purposeful,  so  ap- 
parent, so  utterly  and  emphatically  capitalized  as  to  its 
direct  message,  as  to  be  beyond  the  realm  of  controversy, 
cavil,  or  sophistry.  You  may  accept  this  statement,  or  you 
may  decline,  or  reject  it;  but  whichever  you  do  must  be  done 
wholly,  in  toto,  for  you  can  neither  expunge  from  it  one  jot  or 
tittle  of  what  it  says,  nor  read  into  it  any  other  interpretation. 
Three  statements  in  one,  even  as  the  wondrous  Trinity  of 
God,  it  stands  impossible  of  alteration  or  misconstruction.  No 
hand  of  vandal  can  remove  it  from  the  triune  building  in 
which  it  is  set,  no  ruthless  hand,  guided  by  ignorant  thinking, 
tunnel  into  the  treasure  it  contains.  Thus  stands  it  triunely, 
impossible  of  alteration,  violation,  or  misinterpretation,  a 
pillar  and  an  edifice  to  the  LORD  of  hosts  in  the  midst  of  the 


46  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

land,  even  as  its  triune  expression  in  the  midst  of  the  earth, 
the  Great  Pyramid.  So,  then,  in  the  unfolding  of  the  Flower 
of  Knowledge  and  Wisdom,  we  are  at  once  possessed  of  three 
short,  perfectly  formed  and  complete  sentences  in  the  plainest 
and  most  unmistakable  of  words,  that, — omitting  the  little 
conjunctive  "and,"- 

In  the  beginning  was  the  Word. 
The  Word  was  with  God. 
The  Word  was  God. 

Observing  this  writing  analytically,  as  well  as  synthetically, 
we  at  once  become  conscious  of  the  repeated  use  of  the  word 
"Word,"  and  of  its  repeated  capitalization.  From  such  obser- 
vation it  becomes  also  at  once  apparent  to  our  consciousness 
that  by  such  capitalization  the  author  of  these  sentences  has 
endeavored  to  draw  particular  attention  therein  to  this  one 
word,  "Word,"  which  he  so  succinctly  states  was  in  the 
beginning,  was  with  God,  and  was  God.  Mark,  he  does  not 
say  that  T"he  Word  was  in  the  beginning,  was  with  God,  and 
was  God,  nor  that  The  word,  nor  THE  word,  was  in  the 
beginning,  was  with  God  and  was  God,  for  to  have  so  written 
his  statements  would  have  been  to  convey  to  his  reader  that 
some  one  sound,  uttered  in  the  realm  of  mystery  perhaps, 
certainly  unknown  to  the  majority  of  His  Children,  was  in 
the  beginning,  was  with  God,  and  was  God.  No;  John  states 
clearly  that  the  Word, — W-o-r-d, — that  means  by  which 
we  communicate  with  one  another,  was  in  the  beginning, 
was  with  God,  and  was  God.  No  other  interpretation  will 
satisfy  this  text. 

In  Science  and  Health,  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  Mary 
Baker  Eddy  has  defined  "Beginning"  as  being  "the  only", 
and  as  no  definition  superseding  this  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy's 
can  be  offered  for  a  fact  in  the  realm  of  Consciousness, 
where  "Beginning"  is  automatically  "Ending",  and  vice 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  47 

versa,  so  that  there  is  in  reality  neither  Ending  nor  Beginning, 
we  may  pass  from  the  first  two  statements  in  this  verse  just 
quoted,  and  proceed  to  the  third  statement  as  a  basis  for 
inquiry  as  to  Who,  or  What,  is  God, — 

".  .  .  .  and  the  Word  was  God." 

What,  then,  is  W-o-r-d? 

Pythagoras,  student  and  product  of  the  esoteric  Amasis, 
of  Egypt,  advanced  the  theory  that  W-o-r-d  sustained  the 
difference  between  man  and  beast-of-the-field;  and  with 
such  Pythagorean  dismissal  of  the  subject  man  appears  to 
have  been  content  to  allow  the  question  to  rest  during  the 
years  of  his  decline  downwards  toward  the  mouth  of  the 
Bottomless  Pit.  But  the  question  of  the  origin,  and  the  quo 
vadisy  of  man  still  insisting  to  the  perplexity  of  the  wise  ones 
of  this  world,  from  time  to  time  abortive  attempts  have  been 
efforted  to  answer  this  question.  Finally,  Pythagoras  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding,  a  modern, — very  modern,— 
psychologist  and  Professor  of  Philosophy  has  advanced  the 
theory  that  the  difference  between  man  and  beast-of-the 
field  lies  primarily  in  the  ability  of  the  former  to  fashion 
tools  wherewith  to  express  himself  in  toil. 

This  definition  of  difference,  which  at  first  blush  appears 
feasible,  when  examined  in  the  microscopic  light  of  cold 
fact  rather  puts  man  to  the  blush;  for  the  bird,  with  its 
wings,  can  certainly  outflight  the  aeronaut;  the  spider,  with 
his  tools  of  excision  and  incision,  equal  the  skill  of  surgical 
science;  the  beaver,  with  his  claws  and  little  stump  tail, 
out-Herod  the  best  endeavors  of  the  civil  engineer;  the 
snake,  with  his  long,  sensitive,  forked  tongue  receive  and 
transmit  messages  that  neither  Marconigraph  nor  seismo- 
graph could  record;  and,  the  bee,  without  aid  of  woolsack 
and  ermine,  pen  or  parchment,  give  and  enforce  a  system  of 
communal  laws  and  business  principles  that  not  the  most 


48  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

advanced  civic  government  in  the  world,  nor  the  greatest 
trust  concern  therein,  may  rival.  These  facts  of  animal  life,— 
a  few  out  of  the  myriad  illustrations  of  the  expressions  in 
species  of  such, — all  susceptible  of  proof,  and  obvious  to  the 
merest  observation,  are  so  generally  known  and  accepted  as 
to  call  for  no  further  substantiation  than  the  mere  state- 
ment of  such  invoked. 

So  it  seems  after  all  that  it  is  to  the  Pythagorean  deduction 
as  to  the  value  of  W-o-r-d  we  must  turn,  and  in  support  of 
such  testimony  it  is  easily  apparent  that  whereas  every 
beast  of  the  field, — all  beast  life  that  is, — can  give  expression 
to  one  or  more  of  the  sounds  that  go  to  the  fulfillment  of  that 
which  we  know  as  W-o-r-d,  it  is  to  man  alone  that  has  been 
given  the  whole  and  intelligent  use  of  W-o-r-d;  even  as  when 
the  LORD  God  brought  before  Adam  all  beasts  of  the  field, 
every  creeping  thing,  all  fish  of  the  sea,  and  fowl  of  the  air, 
that  he  might  call  each  by  name,  and  so  have  dominion  over 
them  and  over  the  whole  earth. 

In  this  first  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  John, 
then,  and  the  very  first  verse  therein,  we  learn  Who  and 
What  God  is,  and  that  by  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in 
Himself  (Word),  He  (Word)  performed  His  creation,  even 
as  His  creation  man  performs  his  acts  of  recreation,  or  re- 
membering, by  this  same  process  of  saying  the  name  of  the 
thing  to  be  re-created,  or  re-membered,  and  it  is  allowed  so. 
For  when  God  (Word)  performed  creation  we  are  told  that 
He  did  so  by  the  use  of  Word, — "let  there  be",  whatever 
was  the  particular  creation  then  undergoing  formation,  and 
"there  was",  or  "it  was  so."  Until,  having  completed  the 
creation  of  those  things  destined  to  be  without  the  knowledge 
of  the  use  of  w-o-r-d,  He  (Word)  created  that,  His  son,  which 
was  so  preeminently  to  use  expressed  w-o-r-d  as  the  means 
of  intelligent  expression,  and  alas!  to  attempt  to  degrade  it, 
too,  into  the  language  of  the  intercommunication  of  swine. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  49 

And  God  [Word]  said,  Let  us 
make  man  in  our  image,  after 
our  likeness:  and  let  them 
have  dominion  over  the  fish  of 
the  sea,  and  over  the  fowl  of 
the  air,  and  over  the  cattle,  and 
over  all  the  earth,  and  over 
every  creeping  thing  that  creep- 
eth  upon  the  earth. 

Genesis  I  [LIFE]:  26[DouBLE  CONSTRUCTION] 

W-o-r-d  is  composed  of  several  symbols,  or  integers.  Logi- 
cally it  would  be  spoken  of  in  the  plural.  Moreover,  is  God 
(Word)  one  separate,  distinct  sound  only, — He  who  created 
all  good,  and  without  whom  was  not  anything  made  that 
was  made? 

So  God  [Word]  created  man  in  his  [Word's] 
own  image,  in  the  image  of  God  [Word] 
created  he  [Word]  him  [Word's  Integer];  male  and 
female  created  he  [Word]  them  [Word's  Integers]. 

Genesis  I  [LIFE]:  27  [TRANSITION — Joy] 

Lo!  God's  own  statement  that  he  created  his  image  and  like- 
ness male-and- fern  ale,  and  called  such  man,  giving  to  man 
equi-dominion  over  all  the  earth  and  the  fullness  thereof? 
Where  then  the  boasted  superiority  of  man  over  woman? 
Where  vaunted  national  supremacy?  Where  the  dominion 
of  color  over  color?  It  would  seem  that  the  articles  of  the 
League  of  Nations,  of  Universal  Suffrage,  and  the  per- 
plexing race  and  color  questions  of  today,  had  one  and  all 
been  written  in  a  document  dated  at  least  some  thousands 
of  years  before  these  questions  could  arise,  or  before  poli- 
ticians had  been  able  to  frame  written  statements  in  search 
of  signatories  thereto.  One  little,  short  verse  in  the  first  Book 
of  the  Bible,  in  all  just  22  plain,  easily  comprehensible  words, 
counting  in  the  italic  also,  and  behold!  the  entire  platform  of 
the  League  of  Nations  already  sealed,  signed,  and  delivered; 


50  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

the  Suffrage  Bill  already  in  force;  and  the  Asiatic  and  Negro 
questions  forever  settled  under  the  title,  SONSHIP  OF  GOD  is 
BROTHERHOOD  OF  MAN.  For,  says  the  first  [Life]  verse  of  the 
nth  [Re- volution, — Life-Being]  chapter  of  Genesis,— 

And  the  whole  earth  was  of 
one  language,  and  of  one 
speech. 

No  possibility  of  any  other  rendition  here,  also,  any  more 
than  a  possibility  of  national  or  intercommunal  differences. 
Man  expresses  himself  in  symbol.  When  he  thinks  table> 
he  does  not  build  an  automobile  and  call  it  aero-plane.  When 
he  produces,  he  produces  in  symbol,  or  form-likeness,  that 
which  he  thinks, — "as  a  man  thinketh,  so  is  he."  Con- 
sequently, in  producing  a  written  language  he  would  produce 
such  in  symbolism  of  his  thought,  or  sound,  language.  Now 
if  there  is  one  particular  suggestion  that  is  harped  on  over 
and  over  again  in  the  Bible,  from  Genesis  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment to  Revelation  of  the  New  Testament,  it  is  that  the 
Sin  of  the  Ages  has  been,  and  is,  an  attempted  anthropo- 
morphization  of  God, —  the  effort  to  locate  him  in  the  flesh 
parts  of  Egypt, — in  gold,  in  the  appurtenances  of  what  we 
believe  power  and  might,  in  the  form  that  seems  to  invite 
the  sensual  desire, — in  short  to  express  God  (Word)  other 
than  as  W-o-r-d,  which  obviously  leads  immediately  to  a 
confusion  worse  confounded  of  tongues.  Yet  if  God  (Word) 
was,  and  is,  W-o-r-d,  as  stated  so  positively  by  St.  John;  if 
God  (Word)  created  male  and  female  in  his  likeness,  after 
his  own  image  calling  such  plural  creation  man;  if  the  "whole 
earth  was  of  one  language  and  one  speech,  "then  the  symbols 
of  Word  must  logically  express  Word's  creation,  man.  And 
as  we  have  nowhere  else  to  look  for  an  accepted  account  of 
the  creation  of  man,  we  must  perforce  turn  to  the  Holy 
Bible  for  authenticity  on  this  subject. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  51 

Already  have  we  read  of  the  account  of  man  as  made  in 
the  likeness,  after  the  image,  of  Word.  Let  us  then  turn  to 
the  story  of  the  Sin  of  Man, — the  attempted  anthropomor- 
phization  of  God  (Word), — whereby  did  man  become  mortal- 
ized,  we  are  told,  that  is  to  say,  a  visible,  or  apparent, 
mortally  five-sensed  entity.  And  herein,  in  this  3rd  (Con- 
struction) chapter  of  Genesis  do  we  find  the  first  indication 
of  our  written  alphabet  symbolically,  which  written  alpha- 
bet would  be  the  written  expression  of  Word,  or  its  attempted 
anthropomorphization. 

This  story  opens  with  an  immediate  suggestion  by  a 
serpent,  which  serpent,  we  are  told,  was  more  subtil  than  any 
beast  of  the  field,  that  the  woman  eat  of  the  tree  which  was 
in  the  midst  of  the  garden,  and  of  the  fruit  of  which  tree 
both  man  and  woman  were  forbidden  to  eat.  Obviously, 
here  is  a  point  to  be  well  considered  before  proceeding 
further, — that  whereas  God  (Word)  allowed  this  tree  to  be  in 
the  midst  of  the  Garden,  and  consequently  in  plain  and  daily 
sight  of  His  (Word's)  integers,  he  forbade  them  to  taste  of 
the  fruit  thereof.  And  as  it  is  impossible  to  imagine  the  All- 
Father  plotting  the  ruination  of  his  children,  remains  but 
the  explanation  that  such  tree,  while  existent,  was  to  remain 
intangible;  that  is,  would  only  become  actual  in  seemingly 
attempted  recreating,  or  re-imaging. 

And  when  the  woman  saw 
that  the  tree  was  good  for  food 
and  that  it  was  pleasant  to 
the  eyes,  and  a  tree  to  be  de- 
sired to  make  one  wise,  she 
took  of  the  fruit  thereof,  and 
did  eat,  and  gave  also  unto  her 
husband  with  her;  and  he  did 
eat. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  6  [ATTRACTION] 


52  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

And  the  eyes  of  them  both 
were  opened,  and  they  knew 
that  they  were  naked;  and  they 
sewed  fig  leaves  together,  and 
made  themselves  aprons. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  7  [TRANSITION] 

Here  we  have  man,  on  the  inception  of  his  first  recorded 
volitional  act,  seeking  to  hide  himself  from  the  consequences 
of  that  act,  and  to  hide  himself  from  such  consequences  by 
the  apron,  which  would  logically  hide  such  consequences 
from  himself.  That  is,  recognizing  by  his  very  nakedness, 
not  before  perceptible  to  him,  the  difference  between  himself 
and  his  companion, — separating  by  marking  a  difference,  as 
it  were, — both  he  and  the  woman  strove  to  hide  such 
knowledge  from  themselves  by  covering  those  very  organs 
which  would  proclaim  such  knowledge  of  separation  to  each. 
And  as  this  information  is  the  very  first  we  have  of  the 
perceptible  W-o-r-d,  or  "Word  made  flesh"  as  St.  John 
describes  it,  the  registration  of  such  integers  of  Word  would, 
of  course,  head  the  list  of  the  integers  of  Word,  the  alphabet. 
Thus  do  we  write  the  first  two  symbolic  integers  of  the 
alphabet, — A  and  B, — after  the  fashion  in  which  they  were 
written  by  the  attempted  anthropomorphization  of  Word  by 
Word's  integers,  male  and  female. 

— the  female  organ  of  generation,   denoting 
ATTRACTION. 

—the    male    organ    of   generation,    denoting 
PROPULSION,  or  EXPRESSION. 

And  as  we  are  informed  that  simultaneously  with  the  com- 
mission of  their  first  act  the  eyes  of  both  were  opened  to  the 
perception  of  their  nakedness, 

—the  open  eye,  CONTEMPLATION. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  53 

Then  knowing  that  they  were  naked,  by  actual  sight  now, 
they  hid  their  organs  from  each  other  and  from  themselves 
by  the  use  of  aprons,  as 

Q  — the  closed  eye,  ADMONITION,  Warning. 

For,  also,  the  voice  of  the  LORD  God  was  heard  walking  in  the 
Garden  and  calling  unto  the  man,  who  answered  It: 

....  I  heard  thy  [Word  Apparent] 
voice  in  the  garden,  and  I  was 
afraid,  because  I  was  naked; 
and  I  hid  myself  [closed  my  eye]. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  10  [CONSERVATION] 

And  he  [Word  Apparent]  said,  Who  told  thee 
that  thou  wast  naked?  Hast 
thou  eaten  of  the  tree,  whereof 
I  commanded  thee  that  thou 
shouldest  not  eat? 
Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  n  [REVOLUTION — REBELLION] 

As  it  is,  of  course,  impossible  to  suppose  that  the  All  Creator 
could  be  unaware  of  any  event,  there  is  only  the  assumption 
left  that  by  this  question  God  (Word)  wished  a  direct  state- 
ment from  the  male  integer  as  to  what  caused  him  to  see  (C) 
outwardly,  and  which  reason,  in  symbol,  the  male  integer 
proceeds  to  reiterate  his  just  found  knowledge  of  in  the 

words : 

....  The 

woman  whom  thou  [Word  Apparent]  gavest  to  be 

with  me,  she  gave  me  of  the 

tree,  and  I  did  eat. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  12  [INVOLUTION] 

Which  is,  The  integer  "woman/*  whom  I  know  now  to  be 
such  by  her  female  organ  of  procreation,  she  gave  me  of  the 
tree  and  I  did  eat. 

Then  to  the  woman    the  LORD    God    (Word  Apparent) 
addressed  a  similar  question;  and  whereas  the  man  made 


54  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

answer  that  the  cause  of  his  disobedience  was  the  symbol  of 
lustful  thought,  the  woman  answered  the  LORD  God 
(Word  Apparent),  whose  integer  she  is  equally  with  man, 
in  the  same  verse  and  without  a  moment's  hesitation: 


....  The  serpent  be- 
guiled me,  and  I  did  eat. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  13  [PARTURITION] 


Plainly  there  was  no  attempt  on  the  woman's  part  to  pro- 
claim the  genital  organ  of  the  male  the  cause  of  her  undoing; 
for  whereas  she  was  aware  of  such,  as  published  by  her 
seeking  to  hide  knowledge  of  it  from  herself  and  companion, 
she  stated  the  cause  of  her  undoing  intelligently  to  be  the 
serpent, — that  subtil  beast, — which  had  beguiled  her. 

Now,  the  Serpent  since  all  time  has  stood  as  the  symbol 
of  the  teacher  of  man.  The  builders  of  the  Pyramid  made 
such  acknowledgment  when  they  pointed  the  entrance  of 
their  Structure  of  treasured  Lore  at  the  tail  star  of  the  Con- 
stellation Serpent.  Also,  if  one  cares  to  follow  further  the 
knowledge  of  esoteric  lore  recorded  in  the  Egyptian  Book  of 
the  Dead, — not  yet  translated  wholly, — one  will  find  therein 
an  account  of  the  rites  of  esoteric  transition,  from  world  to 
world,  to  be,  or  to  have  been,  accomplished  by  processes  of 
the  breathing  system  of  the  Great  Serpent  (the  python), 
with  his  ten  units  of  inspired,  ten  units  of  held,  and  ten  units 
of  expired,  breathing,  from  which  the  Egyptian  esoterics 
membered  the  word  J-0-ver, — J-over,  (Jehova).  And  this 
system  of  Great-Serpent  teaching  of  the  path  of  transition, 
told  in  the  Book  of  the  Breathings,  was  in  contradistinction 
to  the  destructive  swift  formed,  and  held,  breathing  system 
of  the  Hindu,  who  in  emulation  of  his  symbolic  cobra  seeks 
thus  to  poison  himself  out  of  mortal  form. 

Yet  it  is  impossible  to  suppose  that  God  (Word)  mali- 
ciously led  His  creation  astray  under  the  decline  of  the 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  55 

dragon  star  to  the  mouth  of  the  Bottomless  Pit,  nor  was  it 
God  (Word)  whom  the  woman  so  accused  in  her  swift 
answer,  but  the  subtilty  (mark  the  spelling),  or  miscon- 
ception of  God  (Word),  whom  she  sought  to  locate  in  the 
flesh  parts  of  Egypt,  whereby  she  produced  a  continuance  of 
the  condition  to  which  she  had  now  bounden  herself  by  an 
act  of  union,  attempting  to  supersede  the  intelligent  unition 
of  Intellect  and  Consciousness  wherein  only  is  God  (Word)  to 
be  known. 

Adam's  answer  was  that  of  one  drunken  on  non-intel- 
lectuality so  that  the  spiritual  perception  of  Intelligence  was 
for  the  time  almost  wholly  removed  from  him;  but  the 
woman, — for  not  yet  was  she  called  Eve,  the  hour  of  dark- 
ness,— spoke  with  the  true  light  of  full  sight,  that  sight  for 
which  she  had  paid,  and  was  to  pay,  so  dearly,  (the  insight, 
or  intuition);  and  thus  was  added  to  the  alphabet  the  letter 

— the  Eye  pierced  with  the  shaft  of  light, 
Sight, — EVOLUTION,  issuance,  when  spoken  of 
intuitively;  when  extuitively,  as  in  this  case 
of  the  woman's,  PROJECTION,  ISSUANCE. 

Then  the  LORD  God  (Word  Apparent),  addressing  this  false 
man-created  concept  of  himself,  the  subtil  serpent,  said: 

....  Because  thou 
hast  done  this,  thou  art  cursed 
above  all  cattle,  and  above 
every  beast  of  the  field;  upon 
thy  belly  shalt  thou  go,  and 
dust  shalt  thou  eat  all  the 
days  of  thy  life: 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  14  [RE-CREATION] 

That  is,  "cursed  above  all  cattle,"  rendered  powerless  be- 
cause of  dumbness,  or  the  loss  of  the  use  of  w-o-r-d,  and 
"dust  shalt  thou  eat  all  the  days  of  thy  life,"  be  fed  only 


56  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

with  that  to  which  mortal  flesh,  decayed,  goes, — re-create. 

cannibally  upon  thy  re-creation,  or  eat  thyself. 

Then  to  the  woman  He  (Word  Apparent)  said, — and  note 

the  gentleness  of  address  so  apparent  in  the  wordings  of 

Word: 

I  [Word  Apparent]  will  greatly  multiply  thy  sor- 
row and  thy  conception;  in 
sorrow  thou  shalt  bring  forth 
children;  and  thy  desire  shall 
be  to  thy  husband,  and  he 
shall  rule  over  thee. 

Genesis  3  [CONSTRUCTION]:  16  [FUNCTION] 

Or,  in  other  language,  I  (Word  Apparent)  will  magnify  thy 
false  concept  in  multiple, — i.  e.  the  sign  of  crucifixion.  In 
sorrow  shalt  thou  keep  reproducing  thy  false  thought  in 
multiple, — again  the  sign  of  the  cross  to  be  lifted  by  the 
true  Cross;  and,  because  of  this  lust  of  thine  for  imaging 
God  (Word)  where  He  is  not,  a  male  shall  always  be  neces- 
sary to  its  accomplishment,  whereby  shall  he  rule  over  thee. 

It  is  said  of  Jesus  that  He  once,  when  asked  when  Sin 
would  cease,  replied,  "When  women  cease  to  bear  children." 

And  then,  in  the  verses  immediately  following,  we  have  the 
record  of  the  curse  of  toil,  labor,  and  unholy  strife  lain  upon 
Adam  for  "  all  the  days  of  his  life, "  that  is  for  the  length  of 
his  "Adam"  life.  And,  immediately  following  this,  Genesis 
3  [Construction]:  20  [Realization]: 

And  Adam  called  his  wife's 
name  Eve;  because  she  was 
the  mother  of  all  living. 

Although  not  until  the  next  chapter,  succeeding  the  ejection 

from  the  Garden,  is  there  any  talk  of  progeny  to  this  union. 

Still,  Adam  called  his  wife's  name  Eve,  and  eve  is  the  hour 

of  gathering  darkness;  and  by  this  first  naming  by  the  now 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  57 

dominant  male,  given  to  him  to  accomplish,  the  symbol  of 
the  downcast  eye,  the  letter 

^\  — the  Eye  downcast, — Impotence,  SUBMISSION, 

is  born  into  the  alphabet. 

Then  immediately,  closing  this  chapter  of  sadness  and  sin, 
we  are  informed  that— 

Unto  Adam  also  and  to  his 
wife  did  the  LORD  God  make 
coats  of  skin,  and  clothed  them. 

Observe  analytically  the  rendition  of  this  just  cited  verse. 
Not  for  Adam  and  his  wife,  but  unto  Adam  and  to  his  wife, 
were  coats  of  skin  made.  Saying  as  plainly  as  can  be  said  that 
Adam  and  his  wife  (integers  of  Word  Apparent)  were  now 
clothed  in  mortal  vestment,  or  made  flesh, — were  mortalized 
and  covered  with  skin. 

Then  automatically,  and  immediately,  following  the 
mortalization  of  these  integers  of  Word, — who  themselves 
had  just  striven  by  locating  Word  to  make  him  apparent  to 
their  perceptible  senses, — the  LORD  God  (Word  Apparent) 
sent  the  man, — male  and  female, — forth  from  the  GARDEN 
OF  EDEN.  And  so  the  letter 


G 


—the  Eye  with  the  tear  issuant:  RELEASE- 
MENT,  to  become  Fruition, 

takes  its  place  as  the  Seventh  (transitional)  letter  of  the 
visual  alphabet. 

This  transitional  state  of  man,  whereby  he  now  passes 
from  immortal  Life  to  the  mortal  concept  of  life,  alphabet- 
ically to  the  separation  of  sound  from  sight,  again,  even  as 
with  the  story  of  creation  in  the  first  chapter  of  this  Book 
of  Genesis,  closes  this  jrd  [Construction]  chapter  of  the 
history  of  Life,  and  in  the  now  following  4th  [Generative] 
chapter  of  the  history  of  Life  we  find  the  story  of  the  alpha- 


58  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

bet  continued  as  the  story  of  the  earth  man,  or  mortal,— 
the  integer  of  Word  Apparent  now  made  flesh. 

And  Adam  knew  Eve  his 
wife:  .... 
Genesis  4  [GENERATION]:  i  [LIFE]:  [EARTH  LIFE] 

Two  figures,  standing  synthetically  in  heraldic  attitude, 
both  joined  and  separated  by  the  symbol  of  their  downfall, 
can  be  typified  only  by  the  letter 

H  — CONVENTION,  Synthesis. 

Such  figures,  the  mortalized  integers  of  Word  Apparent,  now 
begin  that  life  of  earth  generation  foretold  them  by  the  LORD 
God  in  the  last  chapter,  and  recounted  so  clearly  in  the  first 
six  words,  above  quoted,  from  the  first  verse  of  this  chapter. 
And  mark,  so  apparent  in  the  rendition  of  this  verse,  that 
while  Adam  "knew"  the  woman  now  to  be  Eve  his  wife,  he 
also  knew  her  solely  as  the  wife,  the  bearer  of  the  symbol  of 
her  generation  by  which  was  she  to  reproduce  him  in  their 
offspring.  Yet  God  (Word)  said  that  He  created  man  equally 
male  and  female,  in  His  likeness  after  His  own  image, — not 
master  and  servant,  lord  and  concubine. 

Then  follow  logically,  and  in  due  sequence,  even  as  with 
the  Consciousness  States,  the  symbolic  expressions  of  the 
creation  of  foetal  birth  and  life,  in  imitation  of  the  Creation 
of  Life  by  the  unition  of  Intellect  and  Consciousness. 

I  — the  male  organ,  symbol  of  man's  assertion  of 
superiority — ASSERTION. 

S — the  female  "way"  of  the  flight  of  mortal  seed 
into  the  womb,  preserving  the  notion  of  the 
Serpent  in  form-motion, — Tuition,  DIRECTION. 


i< 


— the  male  (in  organ  symbolism)  seeking  entrance 
to  the  figure  of  the  woman,  resistant  in  rigid- 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  59 

ity, — the  problem  of  the  irresistible  force  and 
immovable  body, — Hesitation,  Suspension,  fin- 
ally, ATTENTION. 

But  this  meeting  of  the  two  bodies  is  but  momentary,  and  the 
problem  automatically  solves  itself  in  the  succeeding  letter, 
for  we  now  have 

—the  male  figure  of  assertion  triumphant,  the 
symbol  of  the  "way"  of  flight  prostrate  in  ac- 
quiescence— victory,  overcoming,  ACQUISITION. 

And,  automatically  following  on  this  yielding  by  the  woman, 
as  foretold  in  the  curse  which  she  laid  upon  herself,— 

,X\X\ — symbolizing  the  limbs  of  the  female  receptive  to 
the  male, — RECEPTION,  ACCEPTATION. 

— now  the  beginning  of  the  married  life;  the  sym- 
bol of  the  figure  of  the  female  with  her  hand 
resting  in  expression  of  her  dependence  and 
bondage  on  the  shoulder  of  the  male.  The 
photographic  attitude  of  bride  and  bridegroom 
the  world  over:  ADAPTATION,  which  is  the  way 
to  Adeptness  or  Mastery. 

For  mark,  that  adeptness,  which  is  Adaptation,  is  mastery. 
To  be  master  is  to  be  servant,  for  he  is  richest  who  can  give 
most,  strongest  who  can  serve  longest.  The  power  of  mastery 
is  in  giving,  not  in  taking,  and  in  the  yielding  we  but  gain  the 
more.  Does  a  tug-of-war  team  gain  its  ground  by  straight 
pulling,  or  by  "giving"  with  the  rope  preparatory  to  a 
stronger  pull?  Jiu-jitsu,  the  science  of  "giving  way,"  teaches 
the  art  of  mastery  in  yielding. 

and  she  [Eve]  conceived, 

— the  enlarged  abdomen  of  the  female;  Inclusion, 
COMPREHENSION.  (Why,  when  signifying  our 


60  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

comprehension  do  we  say,  "Oh!"  "Oh,  yes,"  or 
"Oh,  no,"?) 

—the  next  development  in  the  course  of  human 
birth,  the  breast  of  the  female  swelling  with  its 
secretion  of  milk  in  expectation  of  the  coming 
little  life, — EXPECTATION,  Provision. 

— within  the  now  fully  distended  abdominal  walls 
of  protection  the  flicker  of  life  is  comprehended 
in  the  sanctity  of  the  veil, — MYSTIFICATION, 
Obscuration,  Animation. 


O 


In  the  2nd  [Relation]  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Genesis,  verse  6 
[Attraction],  wherein  is  told  for  the  first  time  the  story  of  the 
second  creation  of  man,  as  it  were, — that  creation  in  which, 
unlike  the  image  of  God  (Word)  he  was  formed  by  process  of 
the  LORD  God's  fashioning  from  the  dust  of  the  ground,  we 

read: 

But  there  went  up  a  mist 
from  the  earth,  and  watered  the 
whole  face  of  the  ground. 

In  Science  and  Health,  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  Mary 
Baker  Eddy  refers  to  this  course  of  human  so-called  birth  as 
a  "mystification."  Whereby,  on  the  strength  of  the  same 
word  used  to  describe  the  same  processes  in  two  such  testi- 
monies as  Holy  Bible  and  Science  and  Health,  with  Key 
to  the  Scriptures,  the  author  of  this  work  is  securely  content 
to  leave  that  word,  "mystification,"  as  wholly  descriptive 
of  the  animation  announcing  birth,  and  so-called  birth,  as 
symbolized  by  the  letter  "Q."  Yet  it  is  to  be  borne  in  mind 
that,  as  says  the  Book  of  Revelation,  nothing  is  hidden  but 
shall  in  the  day  of  the  great  ONE  be  revealed. 


Q 


— now  instincting  the  hour  of  birth  into  this  world 
of  the  gathered  life  beneath  the  shelter  of  her 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  61 

heart,  the  mother  breast  wells  with  its  comple- 
ment of  food  for  her  coming  young:  the  breast 
discharging  of  its  fullness  for  the  coming  birth, 
— PREPARATION,  Excision. 

and  [Eve]  bare  Cain,  and  said,  I  have 
gotten  a  man  from  the  Lord. 

Genesis  4  [GENERATION]:  I  [LIFE] 

—the  course  of  foetal  descent,  birth,  which  as- 
suming to  the  female  a  "snaky  feeling,"  was 
suggested  in  motion  by  the  false  Serpent, — out- 
breathing,  or  EXPIRATION.  But,  symbolized  in 
the  heavens  as  the  Teacher  of  Man,  on  which 
astrologically  the  Great  Pyramid  of  treasured 
Lore  orients  itself  because  of  inspired  Wisdom, 
INSPIRATION.  These  two  breathings,  with  the 
held  breath,  (to  be  given  later),  are  the  secret 
of  the  ancient  Egyptian  system  of  esoterism,— 
(S-o-terism),  and  demonstrate  the  difference 
between  the  LORD  God  and  God,  between 
Word-Apparent  and  Word. 

Observe,  too,  in  this  just  cited  verse  from  the  4th  [Genera- 
tion] chapter  of  Genesis,  that  Eve  said, when  giving  birth  to 
Cain,  that  she  had  gotten  a  man  from  the  Lord.  Here  again 
does  the  story  of  mortal  so-called  birth  receive  confirmation 
in  the  Bible  passages,  for  the  curse  as  lain  on  Eve  was  that 
her  desire  was  to  be  to  her  male  companion,  who  by  this 
process  was  to  become  her  Lord  and  master  mortally  (see  the 
letter  "L")  and  from  whom,  consequently,  she  had  gotten 
the  man  child. 

v.x  — and  now,  "  the  man  from  the  Lord,"  born,  is  the 
automatically  following  symbol  describing  the 
next  surgical  operation,  that  of  tightening 
the  umbilical  cord  to  pull  away  the  placenta. 


62  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

This  is   the   end  of  so-called   birth,  hence— 
Finality,  Limitation,  COMPLETION. 

— and  then,  of  course,  sequentially,  the  symbol  of 
the  cradle,  which  also  the  bent  arm  of  the 
mother  holding  her  young  makes — Presence, 
PRESENTATION,  which  at  once  in  this  sense  be- 
comes synonymous  with  DEDICATION. 

This  Dedication  of  an  object  is  an  announcement  of  the  pur- 
pose for  which  it  has  primarily  been  established  in  form.  Eve, 
in  the  annunciation  of  her  first  born,  dedicated  him  to,  not 
God,  but  the  God  whom  she  had  attempted  to  anthropomor- 
phize, the  LORD  God.  And  as  a  son  of  the  LORD  God,  Cain 
immediately  commenced  to  comport  himself,  so  that  even  to 
his  mother's  conception  of  God  Cain  was  unacceptable.  This 
explains  the  naming  of  child,  and  therewith  is  its  purport 
definitely  announced. 

It  is  historically  established  that  Egypt  colonized  our 
nationally  known  world;  a  fact  that  also  receives  corrobora- 
tion  in  the  courses  of  the  Great  Pyramid,  and  in  the  Holy 
Bible,  in  which  latter  account,  St.  Matthew  2  [Relation]:  15 
[Location],  we  are  informed  that  God  (Word)  said,  "Out  of 
Egypt  have  I  called  my  son,"  and  in  the  8th  [Completion] 
verse  of  the  nth  [Revolution]  chapter  of  Revelation  wherein 
we  read,  ....  "Egypt,  where  also  our  Lord  was  crucified." 
Generally,  Egypt,  as  we  know  historically  of  such,  was  com- 
posed of  two  governing  factions, — its  esoterics,  and  exoterics, 
the  former  its  psychologists,  the  latter  its  producers,  its  oper- 
atives. When  Egypt  spread  forth  colonialwise,  it  was  to  this 
latter  faction  that  was  entrusted  this  colonizing  of  the  world. 
How  these  latter  prepared  to  carry  out  such  colonization  is 
perhaps  best  told  in  the  allegoric  language  of  Holy  Bible  it- 
self, wherein  is  given  a  succinct  account  of  the  workmanship 
of  the  Operative  Egyptians,  who  turned  logically  to  the  build- 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  63 

ing  of  a  city  and  tower  whereby  to  express  their  mission  in 

life. 

And  the  whole  earth  was  of 
one  language,  and  of  one 
speech. 

Genesis  n  [REVOLUTION]:  i  [LIFE] 

It  is  written  by  the  ancients,  and  hinted  at  by  Herodotus, 
that  while  the  latter  Egyptian  people  used  the  hieroglyph 
(which  is  really  nothing  but  a  system  of  symbolic,  sound,  or 
"short  hand,"  writing),  the  then  known  esoterics  possessed 
another  sort  of  alphabet,  religiously  guarded  from  the 
masses,  and  spoke  entirely  another  language.  Also,  we  know 
the  mysteries  of  even  later  Egyptian  religion  to  have  been 
concerned  solely  with  an  One  God,  the  various  animal-headed 
gods  worshiped  by  the  masses  being  known  by  the  priests  as 
purely  attributes  of  the  one  God,  and  allowed  to  the  masses 
as  sops  to  bind  them  in  the  ignorance  of  superstition.  And 
that  the  Egyptian  Esoteric  paid  dearly  for  this  binding  of  his 
fellow  man  in  ignorance,  witness  the  ruins  of  his  knowledge 

and  lore. 

And  it  came  to  pass,  as  they 
journeyed  from  the  east,  that 
they  found  a  plain  in  the  land 
of  Shinar;  and  they  dwelt 

there. 

Genesis  n  [REVOLUTION]:  2  [RELATION] 

The  "they"  referred  to  in  this  just  quoted  2nd  verse  of  this 
nth  chapter  of  Genesis  is  given  in  the  last  verse  of  the  pre- 
ceding chapter, — verse  32  [Relation],  as, 

....  the  families  of 

the  sons  of  Noah,  after  their 

generations,  in  their  nations: 

and  by  these  were  the  nations 

divided  in  the  earth  after  the 

flood. 


64  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

As,  as  has  been  already  shown,  the  Ark  and  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid confirm  each  other  in  numerals,  and  in  descriptions  of 
incidents  and  purposes,  the  only  assumption  left  is  that 
Noah, — so  far  from  being  a  builder  skilled  enough  to  erect  a 
floating  structure  capable  of  accommodating  the  whole  of  the 
material  earth, — was  the  Builder  of  an  Ark,  "pitched  within 
and  without,"  that  is  so  oriented  as  to  accommodate  the  en- 
tire laws  of  the  Universe,  male  and  female  of  every  sort,  even 
as  God  created  such  in  his  likeness  and  image.  Consequently, 
the  families  of  the  sons  of  Noah,  the  integers  of  Word  Appar- 
ent,were  those  who  "journeyed  from  the  east," — that  is,  after 
the  course  of  mortal  empire, — colonialwise;  in  short,  the  Op- 
erative Masons,  or  Exoterics  of  Egypt. 

So,  arrived  at  this  plain  of  Shinar, — for  they  were  evi- 
dently on  a  very  different  "plain,"  or  "plane,"  from  that  of 
Noah  and  his  sons  (the  Esoterics), — they  went  at  once  about 
putting  their  exoteric  knowledge  into  practice,  thus: 

And  they  said  one  to  an- 
other, Go  to,  let  us  make  brick, 
and  burn  them  thoroughly. 
And  they  had  brick  for  stone, 
and  slime  had  they  for  mortar. 

Genesis  1 1 13  [CONSTRUCTION] 

Which  is  to  say,  they  produced  building  materials  just  as 
dead-weighty,  hard,  and  inelastic  as  it  was  possible  to  make 

such. 

And  they  said,  Go  to,  let  us 
build  us  a  city  and  a  tower, 
whose  top  may  reach  unto  hea- 
ven; and  let  us  make  us  a  name, 
lest  we  be  scattered  abroad  up- 
on the  face  of  the  whole  earth. 

Genesis  11:4  [GENERATION] 

Now,  observe,  prior  to  journeying  forth  from  the  east,  they 
were  one  of  that  "whole  earth"  that  was  "of  one  language 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  65 

and  of  one  speech,"  wherefore  they  must  consequently  have 
had  a  name,  and  a  method  of  intercommunication.  Now  they 
proposed  to  make  themselves  another  name, — these  men  by 
whom  were  the  nations  of  the  earth  divided  in  the  earth  after 

the  flood. 

And  the  LORD  came  down 
to  see  the  city  and  the  tower, 
which  the  children  of  men 

builded. 

Genesis  1 1 :5  [COMPREHENSION] 

And  the  LORD  said,  Behold, 
the  people  is  one,  and  they  have 
all  one  language;  and  this  they 
begin  to  do:  and  now  nothing 
will  be  restrained  from  them, 
which  they  have  imagined  to 
do. 

Genesis  1 1 :6  [ATTRACTION] 

Not,  observe,  that  nothing  will  be  restrained  from  them,  but 
that  nothing  which  they  have  imaged,  or  imagined,  to  do, — in 
other  words,  no  attempted  anthropomorphization  of  which 
they  may  conceive  but  they  will  attempt  to  carry  out. 

Go  to,  let  us  go  down,  and 
there  confound  their  language, 
that  they  may  not  understand 
one  another's  speech. 

Genesis  11:7  [TRANSITION] 

So  the  LORD  scattered  them 
abroad  from  thence  upon  the 
face  of  all  the  earth:  and  they 

left  off  to  build  the  city. 

Genesis  1 1 :8  [FINISH] 

Possibly  the  gentle  naivety  of  this  last  line  is  the  most  mas- 
terly stroke  of  ;»/Vdirection  in  this  entire  text.  For,  mark,  it 
does  not  say  that  they  left  off  from  building  the  city,  but  to 
build  the  city.  Observe  the  swing  of  the  pendulum.  As  they 


66  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

could  not  express  themselves  via  the  straight  line, — produced 
by  an  inelastic,  unyielding  tower,  in  metaphor, — and  no  man 
has  ever  yet  been  able  to  express  himself  thereby,  or  even  to 
express  a  straight  line,  they  "left  off"  to  build  this  city,  or 
went  off  to  the  left,  went  off  at  a  tangent,  thereby  producing 
the  letter  V,  the  two  tangent  lines  which  form  the  letter,  as 
we  shall  see,  of  the  animal  organ  of  generation,  called  the 
"bull  phallus,"  thus  entirely  passing  over  the  curved  letter 
U,  in  this  "plain"  of  DEDICATION,  or  Presentation;  which 
metaphorical  story  at  once,  as  we  shall  see  in  a  few  lines, 
brings  us  to  the  time  of  the  Operatives  in  Rome,  where  the 
letter  "V"  achieved  both  alphabetically,  and  nationally, 
such  prominence  to  the  total  exclusion  of  the  letter  "U." 

Therefore  is  the  name  of 

it  called  Babel  [Babble,  or  Babul];  because  the 

LORD  did  there  confound  the 

language  of  all  the  earth:  and 

from  thence  did  the  LORD  scatter 

them  abroad  upon  the  face  of  all 

the  earth. 

Genesis  11:9  [EVOLUTION — ISSUANCE] 

By  process  of  armed  conquest  Rome,  a  polyglot  assemblage 
of  Latins,  Trojans,  Carthaginians,  Greeks,  and  lesser  tongues 
in  its  inception,  became  gradually  mistress  of  the  then  earth 
with  a  distinct  language  and  alphabet  of  her  own.  This  alpha- 
bet she  acquired  by  a  series  of  military  colonizations,  extend- 
ing herself  as  an  operative  chiefly  along  the  line  of  road 
building, — which  was  perfectly  logical,  for  she  was  again 
building  up  the  "way"  of  the  oneness  of  language  and  speech. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that  we  speak  of  Latin, — which  really  is 
Roman, — as  the  foundation  of  our  modern  English,  whereas, 
in  reality,  Rome  was  but  gathering  in  the  symbols  of  that 
alphabet  which  originally  were  scattered  abroad  from  their 
wholeness  by  the  LORD. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  67 

But,  although  Rome  finally  assembled  practically  the  al- 
phabet as  we  use  such  today,  she  found  in  this  assemblage 
that  she  had  left  out  of  her  calculations  the  letter  "U," 
whereby  she  was  exactly  in  the  position  as  told  of  the  families 
of  the  sons  of  God  who  strove  to  make  their  "U"  by  two 
straight,  inelastic  lines  drawn  at  a  tangent,  and  thereby  pro- 
duced the  symbol  of  Violation,  only.  Now  observe  the  result 
of  Roman  failure  to  comprehend  this  "U"  alphabetically. 

The  "U"  is  the  symbol  of  the  cradle, — Presence,  which  is 
holiness,  purity.  The  cradle  became  ignored  in  Rome.  Roman 
jurisprudence  allowed  to  the  father  plenary  powers  of  life  and 
death  over  his  own  progeny.  In  Roman  society  the  character- 
istics of  the  letter  "U," — holiness,  dedication,  chastity, 
gentleness,  innocence, — were  most  conspicuous  by  their  op- 
posites;  and  the  symbol  of  violation,  the  male  organ  of  gener- 
ation, became  the  public  badge  of  indiscriminate  worship.  In 
carven  symbol  this  insignia  of  the  violation  of  virginity,  and 
lust,  was  carried  openly  by  Emperor  and  Statesman,  maid 
and  matron,  alike.  It  swung  from  the  head  of  the  chariot  of 
the  General  and  Senator,  the  Poet  and  Philosopher;  it  was 
worn  outwardly  as  a  charm  by  the  mother  of  the  family,  the 
wife,  the  young  girl.  Until  finally  conjugal  fidelity,  even  the 
sacredness  of  virginity,  came  to  have  a  purely  legendary 
value  in  Rome;  the  cradle  of  the  human  race  (worn  by  the 
female  only)  came  to  be  but  the  common  lupanar  of  momen- 
tary and  indiscriminate  lust;  and  Rome  fell,  shrieking  to  the 
old  animal-headed  gods  of  pantheologic  Egypt  to  save  her, 
fell  never  to  arise  from  the  utter  abominations  of  her  harlotry, 
her  lack  of  the  letter  "U"  alphabetically, — and  lo!  in  the 
little  country  where  went  Caesar  conquesting  to  fill  out  the 
Roman  language  into  the  alphabet  of  old  Egypt,  of  Bible  and 
Pyramid,  the  "one  speech  and  one  language"  commenced  to 
reassemble  itself  again,  for  in  Britain  was  there  found  the 
sound  of  the  little  letter  "U." 


68  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

So  Caesar  and  his  legionaries  left  in  Britain  the  Roman  al- 
phabet, to  which  in  course  of  time  the  Britain  added  the 
missing  "U."  Then,  gradually,  by  conquest  and  the  absorp- 
tion of  other  nations  into  herself,  Britain  accumulated  the 
language  of  "  the  whole  earth"  when  it  was  "of  one  language 
and  of  one  speech,"  until,  her  own  speech  perfected,  she  be- 
gan to  send  her  language  forth  colonialwise;  among  other 
new  countries  to  that  called  now  the  United  States  of 
America. 

Into  England  the  letter  "U"  brought  its  tale  of  Presence, 
for  with  the  establishment  of  the  English  language  English 
jurisprudence  established  also  the  sacredness  of  the  sex  rela- 
tions,and  an  abhorrence  of  violation  and  violence, — the  latter 
so  much,  that  Lord  Napier,  when  writing  of  the  English 
peoples,  referred  to  them  as  the  most  warlike  when  necessary, 
and  the  most  unmilitary.  Gentle  and  modulate  in  speech,  re- 
fined in  manner  and  expression  as  he  is,  yet  the  Englishman 
preserves  the  unjust  law  of  primogeniture  in  his  jurispru- 
dence, and  the  law  of  the  curse  of  bastardy  which  no  subse- 
quent conformation  to  the  Common  Law  on  the  part  of  the 
erring  parents  can  undo;  and  the  Englishman  makes  open 
scoff  of  the  United  States  calling  itself  in  speech  Am-#r-ica, 
wherein  is  no  Law  of  bastardy  upon  the  occupant  of  the 
cradle  past  the  power  of  the  parents  to  undo,  no  Law  of  pri- 
mogeniture, but  whose  foundational  document  of  existence, 
— The  Declaration  of  Independence  of  the  13  Original  States, 
1776, — stamped  with  the  seal  of  the  Great  Pyramid  and  All- 
Seeing  Eye,  the  scrolls  of  Egyptian  Papyri  ready  for  the 
unrolling  and  reading,  was  born  declaring: 

We  hold  these  truths  to  be  self-evident,  that  all 
men  are  created  equal,  that  they  are  endowed  by 
their  Creator  with  certain  unalienable  Rights,  that 
among  these  are  Life,  Liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of 
Happiness. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  69 

The  signatories  of  this  document  were  men  whose  founda- 
tional  creed  of  Life  was  culled  wholly  from  their  knowledge  of 
the  meaning  of  the  Great  Pyramid  of  Egypt, — for  they  were 
of  those  operatives,  now  calling  themselves  Free-Masons. 

\/  —the  symbol  of  the  "bull  phallus,"  signifying 
animal  generative  processes.  And  as  these  pro- 
cesses are  violent  in  nature,  logically  the  sym- 
bol of  the  violence  of  Rome.  The  spade,  the 
wedge,  the  bullet-nose,  the  sword  point,  the 
head  of  the  rattlesnake,  the  prow  of  the  battle- 
ship,— all  objects  testifying  to  violent  entrance, 
or  violation.  This  "V"  the  German,  who  so 
ruthlessly  violated  a  peaceful  country  to  attain 
toward  his  violent  objective,  and  subsequently 
violated  every  known  law  of  common  decency 
in  his  violent  processes,  uses  in  his  speech  to 
the  exclusion  of  the  letter  "  W." 

Let  us  observe  the  letter  "W,"  rejected  from  his  speech  by 
the  German.  And  she  [£ve]  again  bare  his  bro_ 

ther  Abel.  And  Abel  was  a 
keeper  of  sheep,  but  Cain  was 
a  tiller  of  the  ground. 

Not  "A-bull,"  but  "A-bell"  (Able). 

— the  double  U,  the  double  cradle,  the  symbol  of 
the  second  birth;  the  last  which  should  become 
first,  even  as  the  first  was  to  become  last;  whom 
his  brother,  Gain,  slew,  because  he  was  Able. 
This  alphabetic  symbol,  which  fulfills  promise 
of  the  second  coming  wherein  in  Christ  should 
all  be  made  alive,  symbolizes  the  Man  whom 
the  children  of  the  world  slew  because  His  creed 
interfered  with  their  profits  (prophets):  VOLI- 
TION. 


7o  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

And  that  whereon  they  slew  Him  was, 

— the  Cross;  the  crossed  integers;  the  sign  of 
struggle  and  of  death;  the  sign  of  multiplica- 
tion, whereby  the  sorrow  of  woman  was  to  be  so 
greatly  increased.  On  such  symbol  was  expia- 
tion symbolically  made  for  the  Lusts  of  the 
World, — but  the  Cross  changes,  when  over- 
come, swiftly  into  the  Crown,  the  Scourge  into 
the  Laurel,  the  symbol  of  Agony  into  the  sym- 
bol of  multiplication  and  plenty;  and  lo!  the 
two  diagonals  of  the  Great  Pyramid,  in  whose 
unit  measure  is  told  the  cycle  of  equinoxial 
precession,  the  course  of  the  seasons  of  strife 
and  darkness,  unite  to  form  the  foundations 
and  crux  of  the  wonderful  Flower  of  Egypt,  the 
Pyramid. 

Says  Julia  Ward  Howe  in  "The  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Re- 
public," 

In  the  beauty  of  the  lilies 

Christ  was  borne  across  the  sea,  .... 

X — Struggle,  CONCENTRATION. 

\/  — Why.  The  symbol  of  Tri-unity,  the  family  tree 
with  son  and  daughter  on  the  parent  trunk.  In- 
verted, this  letter  becomes  the  Great  Pyramid, 
in  symbol,  with  the  Sphinx  in  place  atop  of  it. 
RECOGNITION. 

This  symbolic  complete  Great  Pyramid  tells  of  the  home  of 
the  Children  of  Eyes-Real,  whose  God,  as  proven  by  Mary 
Baker  Eddy,  is  not  a  national  God,  but  a  Universal  Father. 
When  the  capstone  was  rejected  from  the  place  where  it  be- 
longed, the  circumcision  of  the  Children  of  Eyes-Real  oc- 
curred,— that  is,  the  cutting  off  of  the  eye,  /,  or  Light;  and  in 
commemoration  thereof,  the  Beacon  Star  of  the  North, 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  71 

a  Draconis,  was  removed  from  its  place  in  the  heavens,  and 
the  body  of  Operatives  now  calling  themselves  Free-Masons 
darkened  the  northern  transepts  of  their  temples.  Yet,  true 
in  symbol  to  the  partial  removal  of  the  Light  only,  the  Free- 
Masons  darken  only  their  northern  transepts,  and  we  still 
place  the  light  over  our  symbol  of  sight  when  we  dot  the 
letter"!." 

\  — two  heraldic  figures,  uniting  themselves  in  pro- 
cess of  procreation,  could  only  be  expressed  by 
the  letter  "Z,"  which  is  the  "H"  inverted  in 
position  of  such  act.  This  "Z"  is  the  angular- 
ized  "S,"  or  the  subtil  Serpent  known  of  the 
woman,  what  time  she  and  her  companion 
strove  to  locate  the  LORD  God  (Word-Appar- 
ent) in  thtflcsb  parts  of  Egypt.  It  signifies  not 
joy,  as  in  the  Song  of  the  Morning  Stars  and  the 
Sons  of  God  (Word),  whenat  the  Building  was 
complete,  but  the  sorrow  of  the  hour  of  Eve, 
the  hour  of  darkness,  when  the  Eye  was  down- 
cast, and  the  reward  of  the  momentary  seeming 
pleasure  was  Agony  and  Toil,  and  the  Death  on 
the  Cross.  And  in  true  symbolization  of  this 
curse  which  its  knowledge  invoked  upon  man, 
note  its  insistence  in  the  sound  of  the  word 
"business,"  and  how  theBee, whose  only  knowl- 
edge of  life  is  work-work-work  till  it  dies,  uses  it 
as  his  sole  sound  contribution  to  the  Song  of  the 
Hive, — "iz-iz-iz,"  continuously. 

Referring  again  to  the  ist  [Life]  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Gene- 
sis, verses  26  [Attraction]  and  27  [Transition],  God  [Word]  is 
accredited  with  saying  that  He  created  man  in  His  own  image 
and  likeness,  which  was,  and  is,  male  and  female.  This  state- 
ment of  creation  is  reiterated  in  the  5th  [Comprehension] 


72  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

chapter  of  the  Book  of  Genesis,  verses  i  [Life]  and  2  [Rela- 
tion], wherein  we  read: 

....  In  the 

day  that  God  created  man,  in 

the  likeness  of  God  made  he 

him: 

Male  and  female  created 
he  them;  and  blessed  them, 
and  called  their  name  Adam, 
in  the  day  when  they  were  cre- 
ated. 

As,  therefore,  God  (Word)  speaks  of  Himself  so  emphatically 
as  male  and  female,  or  plural,  and  so  often  refers  to  Him- 
self as  "us,"  and  "our,"  it  is  logical  that  we  should  find  in- 
tegers to  our  alphabet  which  will  carry  out  this  idea  of, 
not  Sexuality,  as  of  the  Word-Apparent,  which  denotes  sex- 
separation,  but  Hermaphroditismy  which  is  sex  unition,  or  full- 
sex,  expressing  Word.  And  it  is  here  to  be  noted  that  not  sex- 
unition,  but  only  sex-separation  is  to  be  acquired  by  mortal 
processes. 

Unition  speaks  of  Balance,  Equality,  Equalness.  The 
W-o-r-d  is,  must  be,  a  balanced  product.  Wholly,  or  herma- 
phroditic ally,  it  is  composed  of  sight  and  sound;  that  is  by 
In-to-licht  (light),  Intellect,  whereby  we  procure  a  written 
statement  of  sound  values,  and  Consciousness  (conjures-in- 
S),  that  is  works  in  wisdom,  which  is  in  silence,  unitively. 
This  unition,  then,  of  sight  and  sound  would  give  us  a  visible 
and  audible  alphabet  which  are  the  integers  of  Word. 

Now,  although  we  have  just  procured  a  visible  alphabet, 
brought  about  by  the  attempted  anthropomorphization  of 
God  (Word),  whereby  we  converted  the  Spiritual  symbols  of 
Word  into  fleshly  symbols,  yet  that  is  not  to  say  that  a  whole 
alphabet  does  not  exist  pristine  still  in  purity  and  beauty;  and 
indeed  how  other  could  God,  W-o-r-d  as  his  Inspired  Scrip- 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  73 

ture  states,  exist  as  All-Father  without  what  we  call  an  Al- 
phabet by  which  to  express  His  Fatherhood? 

Thine  eyes  did  see  my  sub- 
stance, yet  being  unperfect; 
and  in  thy  book  all  my  mem- 
bers were  written,  which  in 
continuance  were  fashioned, 
when  as  yet  there  was  none  of 
them. 

Psalms  139:16. 

Thus,  to  attain  a  full  alphabet,  and  so  to  express  ourselves  as 
the  integers, — or  sons  and  daughters, — of  God  (Word),  it  is 
necessary  to  write  our  alphabet  audibly  as  well  as  visually, 
whereby  we  have,  first,  four  distinct  values  to  the  letter  "A," 
thus: 

A — as  in  the  words  male,  hail,  hale,  aid,  suggestive 
of  ATTRACTION. 

A — as  in  the  words  half,  ran,  mad,  bad,  can't,  sugges- 
tive of  REACTION. 

A — as  in  the  words  father,  Ark,  large,  hard,  sugges- 
tive of  EXPANSION. 

A — as  in  the  words  awe,  raw,  war,  door,  suggestive 
of  CONTRACTION. 

These  "word  suggestions"  will  be  found  to  apply  analyti- 
cally to  all  words,  and  serve  in  such  analysis  to  clear  up  the 
meaning  of  many  words  often  obscurely  explained  by  dic- 
tionaries. That  is  to  say,  they  analyze  the  processes  by  which 
words  are  formed,  thus  giving  the  value  to  such,  and  also  cor- 
relate the  language.  Further,  given  the  correct,  or  local,  pro- 
nunciation of  words  of  any  language,  the  meaning  of  such 
word  may  be  ascertained  by  this  analysis  of  its  integral 
values. 

Thus  the  letter  "A,"  visually  and  audibly  announces  itself 
as  ACTION,  or  ATTRACTION,  REACTION,  EXPANSION,  and  CON- 


74  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

TRACTION.  These  "motions"  are  the  sequential  movements  of 
the  organic  muscles  when  producing  foetal  birth,  or  when 
producing  sound.  And  as,  in  the  aggregation  of  this  alphabet 
we  have  turned  from  the  false  conception,  Word  Apparent, 
whereby  mortal  life  received  expression,  to  the  intelligently 
unitive  Life  wherein  only  is  Word  to  be  known,  we  name 
these  first  four  audible  and  visual  alphabetic  integers  An- 
nunciation, ARTICULATION. 

So  we  have,  then, 

A — ATTRACTION    1 

A — REACTION 

A-EXPANSION  '        '        '      ARTICULATION 

A — CONTRACTION] 

B — as  distinguished  in  the  words,  bull,  bunt,  buy, 
bullet,  bang,  suggestive  of  PROPULSION,  PROJEC- 
TION; as  in  bendy  bond,  bye,  broad,  brand,  suggestive 
of  EXPRESSION,  or  Propulsion  Expressed. 

C — as  in  the  words  ice,  nice,  price,  suggestive  of 
CONTEMPLATION,  Investigation.  (Note  the  lat- 
ter suggestion  carried  out  in  the  word  mice.} 

This  sound  of  "  C  "  is  very  closely  related  to  that  of  "  S,"  and 
in  our  alphabetic  story  was  directly  the  outcome  of  the  ex- 
pression (misconceived)  of  the  latter.  The  sound  of  "C," 
however,  is  produced  by  placing  the  tip  of  the  tongue  against 
the  roof  of  the  mouth.  Do  we  not,  when  investigating  a  pro- 
posal, or  contemplating  the  same,  place  the  tip  of  the  tongue 
against  the  roof  of  the  mouth?  The  letter  "S"  is  contrariwise 
produced  by  placing  the  tip  of  the  tongue  against  the  teeth, 
and  in-spiring  the  breath,  or  (when  desiring  to  be  louder,  or 
more  angry,  venomous,  snakelike)  expiring  the  same. 

C — having  the  sound  of  "  Ch,"  as  in  teacher,  church, 
child,  suggestive  of  CONSIDERATION. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  75 

We  do  not  make  two  separate  sounds  of  this  "C,"  that  is 
sound  the  "C"  and  "H"  separately,  as,  for  instance, 
C-h-urch,  teac-h-er,  but  combine  the  two  sounds  into  one, 
giving  thereby  that  sound  of  sympathetic  consideration,  or 
assurance,  which  the  mother  sometimes  makes  to  the  dis- 
quieted infant.  That  suggestion  of  CONSIDERATION,  is  also 
prominent  in  such  words  as  chaste,  chin,  chain.  And  observe 
how  involuntarily, — sub-consciously,  as  it  is  called, — we 
symbolize  such  integers  of  word  as  apply  to  our  momentary 
mental  condition.  The  very  outward  action  we  so  invariably 
manifest  when  CONSIDERING  is  to  rest  the  chin  in  the 
palm  of  the  hand,  or  stroke  the  beard  if  wearing  such. 

D — as  heard  in  the  words  do,  dorit,  dare,  death,  sug- 
gestive of  Warning,  Guidance,  ADMONITION. 

E — as  in  seed,  deed,  Eve,  read,  lead,  suggestive  of  Is- 
suance, EVOLUTION. 

E — as  in  letter,  dead,  better,  suggestive  of  Attempt, 
Tribulation,  ATTENUATION. 

In  the  Hebrew  so-called  alphabet  the  symbol  of  the  letter 
having  the  sound  of  "e"  as  in  letter  is  0°o  •  This  sign,  or 
symbol,  the  Jew  has  adopted  from  time  immemorial  as  a 
sign  of  office  where  the  loaning  of  money  upon  pledged 
articles  is  conducted.  As  the  inception  of  such  a  place  of  ex- 
change is  from  the  very  causes  of  Struggle,  Effort,  Attempt, 
Tribulation,  Attenuation,  the  reason  of  such  letter  in  such 
symbol  in  the  Hebrew  alphabet  is  at  once  apparent.  Also,  it 
disposes  at  once  and  effectually  of  the  already  beginning-to- 
be  generally  doubted  argument,  that  Hebrew  is  the  language 
in  which  the  Old  Testament  of  the  Holy  Bible  was  originally 
written. 

In  this  connection,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  when  one  is  in  a 
state  of  mental  uncertainty,  or  forgetfulness,  the  effort  to 


76  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

consecutively  connect  words  is  signalized  by  this  sound  of 
"e"  as  in  letter.  "I  saw  Mr. — er — Brown  today;  and  he  said  to 
me— er 

F — as  in  the  words  fall,  fluffy,  flurry,  fury,  flimsy, 
fright,  deaf,  fear,  all  suggestive  of  Impotence, 
Retirement,  SUBMISSION. 

It  was  Caiaph(f)  as,  who  when  he  could  not  force  Jesus  to  speak 
as  he  wished,  tore  his  clothes  in  impotent  fury.  When  desiring 
to  show  the  capital  criminal  his  inability  to  defy  the  Law, 
such  hangs  him  on  a  gallows  whose  original  form  was  thus: 
I      J  and  is  as  now  built  but  two  Fs  joined.  And  by  this  sym- 
bol on  which  the  criminal  is  passed  from  this  life,  he 
is  silently  told  of  the  impotence  of  his  views  against 
established  society,  and  hanged  on  the  symbol  of  the  Eye 
downcast. 

But  again  the  downcast  Eye  may  be  not  the  sign  of  im- 
potence, but  of  quiet  possession.  I  submit,  or  "Suffer  it  to  be 
so  now,"  St.  Matt.  3:15,  as  Jesus  said,  does  not  necessarily 
imply  inability,  but  rather  discretion.  Before  Pilate  Jesus 
submitted  in  silence,  which  silence  was  mastery.  And  so  this 
letter  "F"  may  also  take  its  place  in  the  whole  alphabet  thus: 

F — DISCRETION;  and  as  discretion  is  said  to  be  the 
better  part  of  valor,  the  symbol  of  fear  becomes 
also  the  foreword  (forward)  of  the  true  soldier. 

G — as  in  the  words,  God,  good,  great,  glorious,  grand, 
giver,  Gezeh,  gone,  gaze,  gale,  suggestive  of  RE- 
LEASMENT,  Sending  Forth,  FRUITION. 

H — not  as  aitch,  but  as  in  the  words  hurry,  haste, 
hope,  home,  suggestive  of  SYNTHESIS,  CONVENTION. 

I — as  a  pronoun  this  is  a  word  in  itself,  even  as  is  the 
"A"  a  word  in  itself,  and  as  such  it  immediately 
suggests  itself  as  Individuality,  ASSERTION,  Ego. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  77 

Crime  tells  of  an  assertion  of  individuality  too  ruthless  and 
positive  to  be  tolerated  by  constituted  society. 

I — as  in  the  words  lip,  pyramid,  suggestive  of  Clari- 
fication, CONFIRMATION. 

J — as  in  the  words  Jebova,  Jesus,  just,  join,  sugges- 
tive of  DIRECTION. 

Euclid  states  that  a  straight  line  is  the  shortest  distance  be- 
tween two  points.  This  proposition  is  practically  the  founda- 
tion of  mortal  geometry,  and  as  a  proposition  is  all  right, 
excepting  for  the  fact  that  man  has  never  yet  been  able  to 
express  a  straight  line  or  express  himself  by  one.  The  bullet 
from  the  gun,  the  ray  from  the  sun,  the  hand-guided  pen 
from  the  draftsman,  one  and  all  persist  in  describing  an  arc, 
and  because  they  describe  invariably  this  Ark  must  be  tri- 
angulated to  carry  on  as  intended  to  the  given  objective. 
Much  learned  disquisition  has  this  inability  of  man  to  make  a 
straight  line  called  forth,  and  every  possible  reason  from 
gravity  to  dynamics  has  it  brought  out  explanatorily:  yet  the 
fact  remains  that  man  himself  invariably  travels  in  a  circle, 
the  sole  reason  for  which  is  the  mental  attraction  of  like  to 
like,  which  is  Love. 

The  Hawk,  from  which  the  Egyptian  esoteric  took  his 
symbol  of  Wisdom,  placing  its  head  symbolically  as  the  head 
of  the  Head  of  his  masonry, — Ra  (Ray,  the  Light,  and  his 
son,  Osiris) — preserves  a  spiraling,  graceful,  easy  course  up- 
ward, by  virtue  of  which  it  is  able  to  mount  to  incredible 
heights  without  the  apparent  motion  of  wing. 

The  Eagle  is  the  symbol  of  unhallowed  Rome  and  of  ruth- 
less Germany,  whose  Emperor  and  Guard  wore  the  carven 
eagle  crest  on  helm,  and  the  broidered  Eagle  banner  at  regi- 
mental head.  Wilhelm,  who  pronounces  his  name  with  the 
letter  of  violence,  "V,"  superseding  the  letter  of  volition, 
"  W,"  advanced  his  Eagle  standard  straight  as  crow  flight  on 


78  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

his  objective,  Paris,  marching  ruthlessly  right  through  un- 
offending Belgium  in  violation  of  Germany's  written  and 
moral  honor.  He  did  not  reach  there.  Instead,  when  within  17 
(Tuition)  miles  of  Paris  he  was  halted  and  turned  back.  Then 
for  two  years  he  beat  his  wings  in  swift,  straight  thrusts  at 
the  Allies;  until  they,  worn  out,  called  to  the  nation  whose 
flight  has  always  been  Hawkww  for  help.  And  that  nation,  in 
the  year  19-17  (Volition-Tuition),  entered  the  arena  to  teach 
the  straight-line  flighted  Eagle,  before  a  gasping  world  could 
realize,  the  lesson  that  Might  is  not  Right. 

Hogarth,  artist,  when  asked  to  describe  the  Line  of  greatest 
beauty,  demonstrated  it  thus:  t^^---*---^**^^ .  This  line 
is  The  Line  of  Beauty,  and  is  mathematically  demonstrated 
by  pointing  off  three  equal  spaces  and  then  drawing  a  line 
through  such  continuously,  which  line  shall  be  as  far  below 
an  imaginary  horizontal  drawn  through  such  spaces  as  it  is 
above  such  horizontal. 

In  this  manner  are  produced  the  lines  of  the  Etruscan  vase, 
the  female  form,  the  outlines  of  the  cloud,  of  the  wave,  of  the 
human  lips,  of  the  nuptial  flight  of  the  Queen  Bee,  of  the  rose 
petal  among  other  indications,  and  of  the  best  musical  and 
poetic  composition,  of  the  perfection  of  Biblical  literary  com- 
position, both  in  impact  and  in  metre,  and  of  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid. It  is  the  line  of  the  circle  extended. 

In  the  5th  [Comprehension]  chapter  of  the  Gospel  accord- 
ing to  St.  Matthew,  verses  39  [Evolution],  40  [Conservation], 
and  41  [Life],  this  Line  finds  direct  mathematical  confirma- 
tion from  the  lips  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  as  the  Line  of  Grace, 
Beauty,  Strength,  and  Willingness, — the  line  of  flight  of  the 
gentle  man. 

Certainly,  as  witness  the  numerals  of  the  descriptive 
verses,  it  was  the  direct  Line  of  life-flight  of  the  Nazarene, 
who  thus  in  these  verses  expressed  this  Line: 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  79 

St.  Matthew,  5th  Chapter: 

39:  ....  but- whoso- 
ever shall  smite  thee  on  thy 
right  cheek,  turn  to  him  the 
other  also. 

(All  receptive,  and  consequently  at  once 
master  of  the  situation.) 

40:  And  if  any  man  will  sue 

thee  at  the  law,  and  take  away 
thy  coat,  let  him  have  thy  cloke 
also. 

(Richer  than  the  oppressor.) 

41 :  And  whosoever  shall  com- 
pel thee  to  go  a  mile,  go  with 
him  twain. 

(Stronger  than  the  straight  line.) 

For,  giving  in  two  places,  this  Line  automatically  and  mathe- 
matically but  rises  the  twice  higher.  Logically  it  would  initial 
the  mortal  name  of  Jesus. 

But  also  this  letter  initials  the  name  Jehova,  which  is 
J-over  of  the  Egyptian  esoteric,  and  was  expressed  in  his 
breathing  system  (J-over  being  the  name  of  the  sacred 
breathing)  by  just  this  line  of  intelligent  motion.  As  the 
Healing  Breath  the  Egyptian  initiate  called  the  knowledge  of 
such  to  the  part  congested  mentally,  which  part  he  acquired  a 
diagnosis  of  by  diagnosing  the  seeming  physical  ailment  al- 
phabetically, and  then  translating  the  same  into  terms  of  In- 
telligence, or  Spirit. 

After  the  lapse  of  the  centuries,  during  which  mortal  man 
marched  down  the  decline  under  the  influence  of  the  Dragon 
Star  to  the  mouth  of  the  Bottomless  Pit,  Mary  Baker  Eddy 
re-discovered  this  law  of  Spirit,  or  In-Spiritation,  which  is 
Inspiration,  and  named  such  the  Science  of  Christ.  And  even 
as  the  Egyptian  esoteric  intelligently  healed  disease  and 


8o  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

raised  the  seemingly  dead  thereby,  does  the  Christian  Science 
practitioner  today. 

This  breathing,  In-Spirit-ation,  or  Inspiration,  is  not  ac- 
complished, it  is  needless  to  say,  by  drawing  in  a  mouthful  of 
air,  holding  the  same  until  red  in  the  face,  and  then  blowing 
such  out  again.  We  live,  move,  breathe,  and  have  our  being 
only  in  Word,  God,  Spirit.  So,  to  inspire  and  suspire  Jehova 
(J-o-four),  or  J-carried  to  four  places, — circularly,  J-circled 
to  four,  we  must  intelligently  express  Life,  or  breathe,  by 
Volition,  Endurance,  and  Grace,  which  is  merely  another  way 
of  saying  Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity — but,  said  Jesus,  the 
greatest  of  these  is  Charity. 

This  Line  of  Beauty,  then,  is  symbolized  by  the  letter 

J  =  DIRECTION. 

Strike  the  Line  of  Beauty  where  you  will  (on  either  cheek), 
and  you  but  strengthen  it,  for  mathematically  it  is  always 
r^-creative  in  rhythm. 

Seldom  found  in  our  (English)  speech  is  that  little  sound 
"Zh"  which,  again,  the  mother  uses  to  lull  or  incline  the 
child  to  sleep.  Common  to  the  French  tongue,  we  find  it  in 
what  we  call  English  only  in  such  words  as  treasure,  seizure, 
azure,  measure,  pleasure.  It  is  the  second  symbol  of  the  letter 
"  J,"  the  audible  symbol,  and  consequently  is  written 

J  (Zh)  =  INCLINATION. 

K — the  meeting  of  the  irresistible  force  and  im- 
movable body;  as  in  the  words  can,  can't,  cake, 
creator,  craft,  luck, — suggestive  of  Hesitation, 
Suspension,  Balance,  and  finally  ATTENTION. 

It  should  be  noted  here  that  while  certain  picked  "sug- 
gestive words "  are  placed  in  capitalization  against  each 
alphabetic  symbol,  such  are  only  intended  as  a  basic  word 
to  represent  that  expressed  by  such  symbol,  the  use  of  any 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  81 

correlated  word  in  such  instance  being  perfectly  permissible. 
For  purposes  of  demonstration,  without  the  confusion  at- 
tendant upon  the  inter-exchange  of  many  words  to  convey 
the  same  thing,  and  not  to  establish  a  rule  of  necessary 
rigidity,  the  author  makes  a  standard  of  only  such  basic 
words  as  fit  all  cases,  leaving  to  the  reader  to  observe  what 
choice  he  is  pleased  of  correlated  "word  suggestions/* 

L — as  in  all,  love,  letter,  total,  suggestive  of  ACQUI- 
SITION. 

M — as  in  may,  more,  marriage,  mate,  suggestive  of 
Reception,  ACCEPTATION. 

Accepting  an  idea,  or  proposal,  do  we  not  often  thus, 
"Mm-yes-hm-hm"? 

N — as  in  knot,  naught  or  no  (cypher),  nay,  kneel, 
near,  suggestive  of  Adaptation,  which  is  ADEPTA- 
TION,  Adeptness,  Mastery. 

Alexander,  wearied  of  life  through  the  stagnation  of  con- 
quest that  proved  no  conquest;  Cortes,  dying  in  virtually  the 
extreme  of  neglect  and  failure  after  seemingly  victorious  con- 
quest; Napoleon,  gazing  across  the  dreary,  leaden  encom- 
passing sea  from  St.  Helena  to  where  was  France  and  the 
World  he  conquested;  Wilhelm  II,  wandering  a  broken  man 
about  the  grounds  of  his  Dutch  refuge  after  failure  in  con- 
quest— all  could  tell  of  the  futility  of  belief  that  Might  is 
Right.  Tis  a  hard  lesson  to  learn,  yet  the  first  toward  the 
Universal  Brotherhood  of  man,  and  toward  .his  sonship  to 
God  (Word).  For  mastery  lies  not  in  dominance,  but  in  sub- 
mission. He  who  can  not  submit  himself,  can  not  hope  to 
dominate  that  self.  The  strongest  man  is  the  man  who  can 
serve  best;  the  richest,  who  can  give  the  most;  the  wisest, 
who  can  love  others  better  than  himself.  This  is  real  prayer 
and  worship.  It  is  Truth  demonstrated. 


82  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Word  serves  the  Universe  daily,  hourly,  every  second,  and 
every  fractional  part  of  every  second,  unfailingly,  and  with- 
out ostentation.  Remove  Word  from  the  Universe,  and  where 
would  be  the  Universe?  Can  all  the  King's  horses  and  all  the 
King's  men  overcome  Word?  So  the  strength  of  Word  lies  in 
adaptation,  and  not  in  rigidity  or  resistance,  which  is  only  the 
straight  line  and  must  infallibly  come  to  an  end.  The  circle 
serves  always,  and  but  grows  the  stronger  for  such  service. 

O — as  in  go,  sow,  sew,  show,  Ob  yes! — suggestive  of 
Inclusion,  Conception,  COMPREHENSION. 

O — as  in  rude,  shoot,  boot,  loot,  ruin,  suggestive  of 
DESTRUCTION. 

Although  neither  fire  nor  water  will  induce  the  little  field- 
mouse  to  leave  his  hole  in  the  ground,  the  owl,  desirous  of 
paying  court  to  his  lady  with  a  choice  tid-bit,  has  but  to  say 
"hoo-hoo,"  and  the  little  field-mouse  comes  running  forth  to 
his  destruction.  This  noise,  too,  makes  the  lone  wind  travers- 
ing the  prairie,  or  when  searching  among  the  eaves  of  a  house 
for  loosened  boards  or  cornices  to  tear  down.  It  is  the  noise  of 
the  moaning  gale  running  through  the  masts  and  spars  of  the 
ship  it  seeks  to  destroy.  Before  the  typhoon,  comes  the  long 
drawn  "oo-oo-oo-"  in  the  silence  of  the  heavy  calm. 

But  it  has,  too,  another  suggestion  for  us;  and  as  with  the 
casting  off  of  our  symbolism  of  lust  we  have  cast  off  the  sug- 
gestions of  destruction,  darkness,  and  death,  let  us  rather 
look  for  it  in  such  words  as  lute,  flute,  Luke,  new,  you;  and 
automatically  that  which  was  DESTRUCTION  becomes  now 

O — REPLETION. 

P — as  in  price,  pull,  plenty,  praise,  prepare,  sugges- 
tive of  EXPECTATION,  Provision. 

Q — as  in  the  words  quiet,  queer,  quest,  quit,  sugges- 
tive of  Obscuration,  MYSTIFICATION. 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  83 

R — as  in  the  words  race,  rear,  rare,  right,  wrong, 

suggestive  of  the  act  of  Excision,  PREPARATION. 
S — as  in  speak,  spiral,  spell,  gospel,  biss,  suggestive 
of  Expiration,  and  INSPIRATION. 

Again,  as  in  the  case  of  the  letter  "C"  do  we  have  a  sound 
seeming  at  first  glance  to  be  formed  by  the  combination  of 
"H"  with  "S"  as  "Sh,"  but  which  in  reality  is  but  a  one 
sound  of  "S,"  and  found  in  such  words  as  conscious,  insure. 
And  so  we  write  this  letter 

S(Sh) — as  in  the  words,  conscious,  show,  insure, 
sbrive,  sbrine,  shed,  as  suggestive  of  where  Inspir- 
ation takes  place,  and  consequently  SPIRITUALI- 
ZATION. 

Possibly  the  only  one  of  the  above  cited  "word  suggestions" 
not  at  first  apparent  will  be  the  use  of  the  word  sbed  in  this 
connection.  Yet  the  Spirit  sbeds  its  light;  in  the  sbed  was  the 
Christ  child  born.  In  the  sbode,  or  protection  sbed  by  the 
Great  Pyramid,  did  the  Child  find  refuge  from  the  soldiery  of 
Herod.  This  "Sh"  sound  is  patently  referred  to  in  this  con- 
nection by  the  Psalmist  in,  "The  Lord  is  in  His  Holy  Temple, 
let  all  the  earth  keep  silence  before  Him." 

T — as  in  the  words  stay,  street,  tie,  limit,  stet  (proof- 
reader's abbreviation  for  let  stand),  suggestive  of 
the  words  COMPLETION,  Limitation,  Finality. 

U — as  in  the  words  look,  book,  Jesus,  pure,  pyr(u)- 
amid  (peer-amid),  suggestive  of  Presence,  PRES- 
ENTATION, DEDICATION. 

Orienting  the  Great  Pyramid  on  a  Draconis  dedicated  it  to 
the  exposition  of  the  history  of  man  as  told  in  the  alphabet; 
orienting  it  on  the  Sun,  and  on  Alcyone,  dedicated  it  to  Intel- 
ligence, and  to  an  exposition  of  the  Laws  of  Life.  We  dedicate 


84  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

books.  Jesus  was  dedicated  tothe  carrying  out  of  His  Father's 
Will  on  earth.  Hence,  as  in  all  dedication  we  acknowledge 
Presence,  dedication  is  really  the  "naming,"  and  occurs  logi- 
cally immediately  on  the  completion  of  birth.  Thus  the 
church  custom  of  the  "naming"  of  the  born  child  just  so  soon 
as  advisedly  the  mother  and  child  can  be  brought  before  the 
priest  or  clergyman. 

But  this  actual  naming  at  birth  (humanly  speaking)  has 
already  been  mentally  or  consciously  accomplished  by  the 
parent,  or  parents,  before  the  actuality  (as  we  consider  such) 
of  such  dedication  occurs, — has,  in  fact,  been  in-spirited  by 
the  mother  when  carrying  the  coming  life  under  the  protec- 
tion of  her  heart,  even  as  the  Child  was  secured  beneath  the 
shelter  of  the  Heart  of  Egypt,  from  where  (as  in  Revelation) 
He  was  called  forth.  And  so  this  "naming"  of  the  child-to-be 
is  in-spirited,  and  an  analysis  of  the  names  of  ourselves,  or  of 
people  known  to  us,  will  tell  of  the  very  purports  of  such  in 
this  University  of  earth,  even  as  we  in-spirit  every  word 
spoken  and  written  whereby  we  live,  move,  breathe,  and  have 
our  being.  For  is  not  Word  always  with  us,  and  could  we  exist 
for  one  moment  were  It  removed  from  our  midst? 

This  name  that  we  are  here  called  by  is  our  mortal  Cross, 
formed  by  the  crossing  of  the  integers  into  a  whole,  herma- 
phroditically,  which  to  follow  to  mastery  we  must  accept. 
Finally,  when  as  told  in  Revelation  we  assume  the  real  name 
written  in  our  foreheads  (not  our  mortal  skulls),  we  change 
the  Cross  into  a  Crown,  and  take  up  our  inheritance  when  the 
whole  earth  was  of  one  language  and  of  one  speech. 

A  second  sound  of  the  letter  "U"  appears,  as  used  by  us  in 
the  words  rut,  gut,  but,  butt,  grunt,  all  suggestive  of  Ignor- 
ance. The  first  of  these  suggestive  words  is  that  used  to  de- 
scribe the  act  of  savage  and  animal  coition;  or  that  fallow  in 
which,  having  fallen,  we  must  use  such  prodigious  energy  and 
volition  to  come  forth  from.  But,  implying  doubt,  suggests 


CHILDREN  OF  WORD  85 

anything  but  clarity  and  intelligence;  butt  most  certainly 
describes  the  most  ignorant  way  of  removing  an  obstacle 
from  the  path,  and  is  generally  indulged  in  by  the  goat,  rhi- 
noceros, and  bull,  than  which  three  more  stupid  animals 
probably  do  not  exist. 

Yet  do  we  find  the  Indian  of  North  America  habitually 
using  this  "u"  in  his  speech,  and  especially  in  the  council 
where,  if  anywhere,  might  wisdom  be  looked  for.  Nor  is  the 
North  American  Indian  one  to  whom  either  the  words  "ignor- 
ant" or  "stupid"  could  with  any  show  of  justice  be  applied. 
His  very  mode  of  life  and  knowledge  of  woodcraft  cry  out 
against  such  term,  his  worship  of  a  Great  Spirit  proclaims  him 
anything  but  uninformed.  Moreover  his  crafts,  his  knowledge 
of  natural  history,  the  artistry  of  his  habitations,  do  not  in 
the  least  speak  of  unintelligence. 

But  when  we  recall  that  the  North  American  Indian  is  one 
who,  nurtured  on  the  vast  prairies  and  deserts,  lives  so  exclu- 
sively within  himself  that  he  vividly  mirages  hunting  grounds, 
and  sees  the  face  of  the  Great  Spirit  in  the  beauty  of  nature, 
that  he  procures  the  notes  of  his  music  from  the  seven  sounds 
of  the  wind  over  the  prairie,  and  the  river,  and  among  the 
trees,  that  he  instincts  Presence  of  otherness  as  do  the  dumb 
animals,  rather  do  we  understand  the  use  of  this  sound  of  the 
second  symbol  "u"  by  him  to  express  his  inferiority ^  and  so  we 
write  this  second  cradle  letter, 

U — Seclusion,  INTERIORITY. 

V — as  in  the  words  move,  grave,  violence ',  evade,  Love, 
suggestive  of  ENTRANCE.  But  Love,  we  know, 
will  find  a  way,  and  so  we  write  this  letter  best 

V — INCURSION. 

W — as  in  the  words  will,  won't,  want,  went,  wend, 
way,  suggesting  VOLITION. 


86  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

X — as  in  the  words  axe,  phalanx,  oxen,  crux,  hoax, 
suggestive  of  Struggle,  Friction,  CONCENTRATION. 

Y — as  in  the  words  yea,  yes,  beyond,  suggestive  of 
RECOGNITION. 

Z — as  in  the  words  business,  Boaz,  does,  zeal,  sugges- 
tive of  Demand,  Insistence,  CONTINUATION. 


,  ARTICULATION 


Thus,  gathering  our  alphabet  tabularly,  we  have, 

A  ....             ATTRACTION 

A  .         .         .         .         REACTION 

A EXPANSION 

A  ....         CONTRACTION 

B EXPRESSION 

C  ....      CONTEMPLATION,  INVESTIGATION 

C CONSIDERATION 

D ADMONITION,  GUIDANCE 

E ISSUANCE,  EVOLUTION 

E EFFORT,  ATTENUATION 

F SUBMISSION,  DISCRETION 

G RELEASMENT,  FRUITION 

H SYNTHESIS,  CONVENTION 

I  ....      INDIVIDUALITY,  EGO,  ASSERTION 

I CLARIFICATION,  CONFIRMATION 

J  DIRECTION 

J INCLINATION 

K  ...      HESITATION,  SUSPENSION,  ATTENTION 

L ,      ACQUISITION 

M ACCEPTATION 

N ADAPTATION,  ADEPTNESS 

O COMPREHENSION,  INCLUSION 

O  SPOLIATION,  DESTRUCTION,  REPLETION 

P EXPECTATION,  PROVISION 

Q OBSCURATION,  MYSTIFICATION 

R  .....           EXCISION,  PREPARATION 


THE  GREAT  ONE 


IV 

II  Timothy,  Chapter  2  (Relate) : 
15  (Locate-lodge) :  Study  to  shew  thyself  ap- 
proved unto  God,  a  workman 
that  needeth  not  to  be  ashamed, 
rightly  dividing  the  word  of 
truth. 

THE  CHRIST  is  the  word  of  Truth,  admittedly.  In  the 
thirteenth  [Parturition]  chapter  of  Revelation,  John, 
the  author,  states  that  he  stood  on  the  sands  of  the 
shore  and  watched  two  beasts  rise  up  out  of  the  sea.  The  first 
beast  received  his  power  from  the  Dragon  (a  Draconis),  and 
was  fashioned  as  three  wild  beasts;  the  second  beast  that 
came  up  out  of  the  sea  was  like  a  lamb,  but  he  spake,  also,  as 
a  dragon.  The  two  beasts,  as  we  have  seen,  represent  the  mor- 
tal and  Immortal,  the  Son  of  man,  and  Son  of  God.  The  for- 
mer, the  Be-st!  when  recognized  as  the  word  of  Truth  be- 
comes the  Cry-st!  It  is  this  latter,  whose  numbers  are  those  of 
the  full  alphabet,  which  in  Timothy  we  are  bidden  to  divide 
rightly ,  thus  showing  ourselves  workmen  who  need  not  be 
ashamed,  for  we  are  approved  unto  God,  or  have  proven  our- 
selves to  God.  For  this  purpose  is  mortality  made  apparent, 
the  Word  made  flesh. 

And  this  "rightly  dividing"  the  Word  of  Truth,  we  are  told, 
is  dividing  the  great  ONE,  or  Oneness.  As  it  is  at  first  difficult 
to  perceive  how  dividing  the  whole  can  produce  a  oneness^  it  is 
necessary,  as  always,  that  we  go  to  Holy  Bible  and  Pyramid 
to  learn. 

To  refresh  the  memory  of  the  reader,  and  obviate  the 
necessity  of  referring  to  previous  tables  of  Consciousness 
States  and  Alphabet,  both  are  here  repeated  in  the  order 
given. 

Consciousness  States: 

i :  Life,  Being. 


94  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

2:  Relation. 

3:  Construction. 

4:  Generation. 

5:  Comprehension. 

6:  Attraction. 

7:  Mutation,  Transition. 

8:  Completion. 

9:  Evolution. 
10 :  Conservation. 
1 1 :  Re- volution. 
12:  Involution. 
13:  Parturition. 
14:  Re-creation. 
15:  Location. 
16:  Function. 

17:  Tuition,  Intuition,  Selection. 
18:  Co-ordination,  Co-operation. 
19:  Volition. 
20:  REALIZATION. 

The  Alphabet: 

I — A  Attraction   ] 

2-a  Reaction       LRTICULATION 

3 — a  Expansion 

4 — a  Contraction] 

5 — B  Expression. 

6 — C  Contemplation. 

7 — c  Consideration. 

8 — D  Admonition,  Guidance. 

9 — E  Evolution,  Issuance. 

10 — e  Attenuation,  Effort. 

ii — F  Submission,  Discretion. 

12 — G  Releasment,  Fruition. 

13 — H  Synthesis,  Convention. 

14 — I  Assertion,  Ego. 


THE  GREAT  ONE  95 

15 — i  Confirmation,  Clarification. 

1 6 — J  Direction. 

17 — j  Inclination. 

1 8 — K  Suspension,  Attention. 

19 — L  Acquisition. 

20 — M  Acceptation. 

21 — N  Adaptation,  Adeptation. 

22 — O  Inclusion,  Comprehension. 

23 — o  Destruction,  Repletion. 

24 — P  Provision,  Expectation. 

25 — Q  Obscuration,  Mystification. 

26 — R  Excision,  Preparation. 

27 — S  Expiration,  Inspiration. 

28 — s  Spiritualization. 

29 — T  Limitation,  Completion. 

30 — U  Presence,  Presentation,  Dedication. 

31 — u  Ignorance,  Seclusion,  Interiority. 

32 — V  Entrance,  Incursion. 

33 — W  Volition. 

34 — X  Struggle,  Concentration. 

35 — Y  Recognition. 

36 — Z  Insistence,  Continuation. 

Total     666 

Plato  says  that  God  perpetually  geometrizes.  By  the  Great 
Pyramid  God  certainly  asserts  the  triunity  of  His  activities, 
and  tri-unition  of  His  purposes,  and  His  own  Trinity, — and 
these  manifestations  are,  of  course,  the  manifestation  of  Wis- 
dom, which  is  Mind.  Thus,  in  symbol  in  the  Great  Pyramid, 
He  establishes,  and  divides,  the  earth  and  the  fullness  thereof 
into  its  classified  and  numerized  laws,  by  process  of  always 
tri-angulation,  which  really  is  the  squaring  of  the  circle, 
pi-mg  the  same.  Thus  to  divide  the  word  of  Truth,  as  told  in 
the  Great  Pyramid  and  Holy  Bible,  must  we  apply  the  same 


96  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

process  of  triangulation  in  vogue  in  either,  by  which  process 
each  confirms  the  other. 

The  total  integers  of  the  word  of  Truth  result  in  the  num- 
ber (666)  of  the  Beast.  In  dividing  the  number  of  the  Beast, 
which  is  Wisdom  and  the  number  of  a  man,  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid regards  the  whole  as  a  triangulation,  or  tri-unition  of  two 
equal  numerals,  the  one  which  is  alphabetically  depicted  as 
prostrate,  the  ^,  and  the  other  upright,  |,  horizontal  and 
perpendicular;  and  even  so,  according  to  Genesis  1 126-27,  and 
Genesis  5:1-2,  does  the  Holy  Bible.  Remains  then,  obviously, 
but  to  apply  the  Pyramidal  process  by  which  such  are  ren- 
dered tri-unitive. 

Place  aux  dames.  The  female  is  manifestly  the  "in-volu- 
tioned"  or  "in-turned"  expression.  Her  processes  of  mental 
activity  are  /72-tuitive.  Even  as  woman,  herald  of  the  Hour  of 
Darkness,  Eve,  which  is  woman's  brightest  hour,  she  looks 
within;  and  the  Light  of  Night,  in  honor  of  the  hour  of  her 
reign,  is  referred  to  as  "she."  The  Great  Pyramid  orients 
itself  at  midday  on  the  male  sun,  but  at  midnight  on  the 
female  star  Alcyone,  most  beautiful  of  the  Pleiades.  So,  se- 
quentially, to  express  in  numerals  the  one  of  the  zft-sight,  the 
female,  must  we  /w-turn  the  numerals  of  the  Word  of  which 
is  She  a  part.  This  is  the  process  of  /wvoluting. 

/^volution  is  circular  in  activity,  and  /^-turning,  or  turn- 
ing in  on  one  another,  is  drawing-together,  or  adding.  So  to 
get  the  zwvolutioned,  or  female,  expression  of  the  numeral 
666,  which  is  the  number  of  a  man,  we  /Vzturn  these  figures, 
which  is  to  consider  them  as  six  and  six  and  six,  or  18. 

In  Consciousness,  then,  the  number  of  the  female  is  18. 
The  1 8th  Consciousness  State  is  Co-ordination,  which  is  the 
age  of  consent  in  the  female,  when,  as  in  the  i8th  letter  of  the 
alphabet,  she  appears  able  to  care  for  herself.  But  this  unit 
1 8  is  in  excess  of  the  unit  measure  of  the  horizontal  course  of 
masonry,  wherefrom  are  our  Consciousness  States  correlated 


THE  GREAT  ONE  97 

with  Holy  Bible.  Obviously  our  circle,  18,  is  yet  too  large,  and 
must  be  reduced  to  true  geometric  circumference  to  preserve 
its  place  in  the  spiral  stairway  of  Consciousness,  /^-turning 
this  figure  again  results  in  /  (one)  and  8,  which  is  9.  As  this 
number  is  less  than  the  standard  10  it  is  final  as  the  measure 
of  the  female  of  the  Word,  and  in  Consciousness  is  called  Evo- 
lution. The  ninth  letter  of  the  alphabet,  be  it  observed,  is  that 
letter  (— ,  which  the  female  added  to  the  alphabet  by  dis- 
obedience, the  Eye  pierced  with  the  shaft  of  light,  whereby 
the  Hour  of  Darkness  fell  upon  the  world.  Evolution  proceeds 
by  spiral,  Awards,  as  travels  the  screw. 

As  is  the  female  the  intuitive  one,  so  is  the  male  the  extui- 
tive,  the  apparent,  the  lord.  The  Great  Pyramid  orients  at 
midday  on  the  sun,  and  on  the  tail  star  of  the  Dragon, 
a  Draconis,  which  is  the  symbol  of  the  Bright  and  the  Morning 
Star,  of  the  Christ,  the  word  of  Truth.  Thus  to  procure,  as 
does  the  Great  Pyramid,  the  expression  of  the  male,  we  must 
write  down  that  which  is  apparent,  visual,  over,  remainder. 

The  number  666  gives  sixty-six  courses  of  ten  units  each, 
with  an  over,  apparency  or  remainder,  of  six.  This  is  the 
simplest  sort  of  mathematics,  and  not  only  foundational,  but 
practically  the  whole  of  mathematics.  In  Consciousness,  this 
remainder  6  is  Attraction.  Therefore  the  Consciousness  of  the 
Word  is  the  tri-unition  of  Attraction  and  Evolution,  6  and  9. 

God  (Word)  in  Genesis  1:26-7,  and  in  Genesis  5:1-2,  says 
that  He  repeated  his  own  image  and  likeness  as  male  and 
female,  and  called  them  man.  Consequently  the  unition  of 
male  and  female  would  give  us  the  expression  of  Tri-unity 
which  God  (Word)  called  man.  That  is,  numerically,  6  plus  9 
equals  15,  and  15  is  Location,  Place, — the  mount  Zion  of  the 
old  Psalmist,  which  is  the  Great  Triangle,  the  Great  Pyramid. 
Also  man  is  one-five  (15),  which  is  the  unit  of  measure  of  the 
Great  Pyramid, — five  sides,  five  corners,  five-times-five 
courses  upward  to  the  Queen's  chamber,  which  is  composed 


98  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

of  combinations  of  fives,  and  ten-times-five  courses  upward  to 
the  King's  chamber,  which  is  also  composed  of  combinations 
of  fives, — symbolizes  the  five  earth  senses,  and  the  five- 
pointed  Star,  the  twice  five  Commandments,  and  the  emblem 
of  the  Christ,  the  Word  of  Truth. 

The  Son,  the  male,  sits  on  the  Right  Hand  of  God.  This 
"rightly  dividing"  the  word  of  Truth  places  the  Son  on  the 
right  hand,  and  the  daughter,  of  course,  on  the  left,  and  is 
TETRAGRAMING.  To  Tetragram,  then,  the  number  666,  we  ex- 
press  it  thus:  ^ 

6+9 
© 

Thus  we  have,  by  tri-uniting,  or  Tetragraming,  the  Word  of 
Truth,  when  the  latter  becomes  "rightly  divided,"  man  ex- 
pressed as  LOCATION,  or  Place, — the  Place  of  which  is  the 
Word  of  Truth  the  chief  corner  stone,  or  Head.  Alphabetically, 
the  number  15  expresses  the  "I"  (Confirmation),  which  we 
are  taught  to  dot  in  eternal  memory  of  the  Light  over  the 
Pyramid,  the  All-seeing  eye. 

No  further  corroboration  of  the  fetragram  could  reason- 
ably be  required.  Yet,  lest  any,  sceptical,  should  talk  of  "co- 
incidences" and  "chance,"  one  more  direct  demonstration  is 
vouchsafed  us,  based  upon  this  very  number  of  a  man,  and  in 
the  very  Pyramidal  courses  from  which  is  the  Tetragram  de- 
rived,— the  pitch,  or  rhythm,  of  the  Ark,  wherefrom  is  the 
nineteen  (and  finally  true,  or  twenty)  Chromatic  Scale.  For 
the  number  15,  the  Chromatic,  or  Consciousness,  numeral 
of  the  Word  (God),  (when  the  Chromaticism  is  True,  conse- 
quently the  Word  of  Truth),  is  derived  by  the  unition  of  the 
numerals  6  and  9,  and  our  entire  scale  of  musical  notes,  in 
whatever  language  of  accepted  musical  composition,  is  com- 
posed of  these  unvarying  note-figures,  I  and  1 ,  which  are, 
as  plainly  as  can  be,  the  numerals  of  the 'Consciousness  of 


THE  GREAT  ON*fi;§'  - 


Attraction  and  Evolution,  brought  into  ever-changing  attrac- 
tion and  evolution  to  evolve  what  we  term  music. 

And  the  whole  earth  was  of 
one  language,  and  of  one 
speech. 

MAN  is  a  homogeneous  word.  Man  is  the  servant  of  God 
(Word),  tfetragramatically  he  is  expressed: 

M  —  Acceptation  20 

a  —  Reaction  2 

n  —  Adaptation  21 

Total  43 

3+7 
(10) 


10,  Consciously,  is  CON-SERVATION,  the  Server.  The  numer- 
als i  and  o  contain,  or  conserve,  between  them  the  entire 
known  numerals.  Again  we  have  a  generic  expression  in  con- 
firmation of  Genesis  1:26-27;  Genesis  5:1-2;  and  Revelation 
13:18. 

The  Son  of  man  said,  "I  and  my  Father  are  one."  St.  John 
10:30. 

The  words  my  Father  are  written,  m-y  F-a-t-h-e-r;  pro- 
nounced, M-i  F-a-t-h-u.  Consequently,  the  visual-audible 
expression  of  my  Father  would  be  m-i-y  F-a-t-h-e-u-r. 

M — Acceptation  20 

i — Ego-assertion  14 

y — Recognition  35 

F — Submission,  Discretion  1 1 

a — Expansion  3 

t — Limitation,  Completion  29 

h — Synthesis,  Convention  13 

e — Evolution  9 

u — Seclusion  31 


too  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

r — Preparation  26 

191 

1+2 

®    CON- 
STRUCTION, the  irreducible  figure  A,  Trinity. 
There  is  only  one  Trinity,  and  that  is  God. 

The  my  Father  referred  to  is,  of  course,  God,  only.  The 
word  "God"  is  written  G-o-d;  pronounced  G-a-d.  Its  visual- 
audible  expression  is  G-o-a-d. 

G — Fruition,  Releasment  12 

O — Comprehension,  Inclusion  22 

A — Expansion  3 

D — Guidance  8 


45 
5+9 


14,  Consciousness  of  Re-creation,  Ever  Creator;  the  Line  of 
Beauty  in  expression. 

Thus,  the  "I,"  which  is  the  I4th  symbol  of  the  alphabet, 
and  my  Father  (God,  14)  are  one. 

The  Holy  Bible  says  that  God  is  the  W-o-r-d.  Word  is 
written,  w-o-r-d;  pronounced,  w-o-e-d;  whole  value  visually- 
audibly,  w-o-e-r-d. 

W — Volition,  the  double  birth  33 

O — Comprehension,  Inclusion  22 

E — Effort,  Attenuation  10 

R — Preparation  26 

D — Guidance  8 


99 
9+9 


THE  GREAT  ONfe  ioi 

Word:  Co-ordination, — that  Wholeness,  or  Holiness,  which 
is  the  difference  between  man  and  the  beast  of  the  field. 

These  integers  by  which  Word  (God)  is  made  manifest  are 
male  and  female,  both  homogeneous  words  in  themselves. 

M — Acceptation  20 

a — Attraction  I 

1 — Acquisition  19 

e — Evolution  9 

49 

9+4 
@ 

PARTURITION 

The  male  of  Word,  then,  is  Parturitive,  or  Giving  Forth, 

Creator. 

F — Submission,  Discretion  1 1 

e — Evolution  9 

m — Acceptation  20 

a — Attraction  I 

1 — Acquisition  19 

e — Evolution  9 


69 

6+9 
(15) 


LOCATION 

The  female  of  Word  is  Locative,  or  stable.  It  was  in  a  stable 
where  the  Christ  was  born.  Neither  female  nor  male  should 
however  be  confused  with  "man"  and  "woman."  The  for- 
mer are  the  expressions  of  God,  the  latter  the  emanation  of 
woman's  false  conception  of  God.  Male  and  female  are  nu- 
merically 49  plus  69,  or  1 1 8.  Tetragramatically  this  118  re- 
ceives expression, — 


oi*'  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 


118 
10 


18,  Co-ordination,  Co-operation;  the  purposes  for  which 
Male  and  Female  were  created  in  equality.  The  co-ordination 
of  these  integerically  gave  us  the  number  666,  which  is  Wis- 
dom, Mind,  and  the  number  of  a  man.  See  the  Tetragram  of 
"Word"  whose  integers  man  is. 

That  which  God  created  male  and  female  in  His  image  He 
named  man.  The  number  of  the  complete  Pyramid,  and  al- 
phabet, He  declared  to  be  "Wisdom  and  the  number  of  a 
man."  In  the  Constructive  (3rd)  chapter  of  Exodus,  the  Re- 
creative (i  4th)  verse,  He  gives  Moses  a  definite  name  whereby 
is  the  latter  to  make  Him  known  to  the  Children  of  Israel. 

And  God  said  unto  Moses, 
I  AM  THAT  I  AM:  and  he 
said,  Thus  shalt  thou  say  unto 
the  children  of  Israel,  I  AM 
hath  sent  me  unto  you. 

I  —  Assertion,  EGO  14 

A  —  Re-action  2 

M  —  Acceptation  20 


36 
6+9 


15,  The  Place,  "beautiful  for  situation,"  wherefrom  come  all 
the  laws  of  the  Universe.  Also,  exactly  has  this  I  AM  the  male 
and  female  and  total  numerals  of  the  number  of  a  man  (666). 
Therefore,  the  why  that  Jesus  called  Himself  the  Son  of  man. 

I — Assertion,  EGO  14 

A — Re-action,  Recreation  2 

M — Acceptation  20 


THE  GREAT  ONE  103 

T  —  Completion,  Finality  29 

H  —  Synthesis,  Convention  13 

A  —  Re-action  2 

T—  Completion,  Finality  29 

I  —  Assertion,  EGO  14 

A  —  Re-action  2 

M  —  Acceptation  20 


5  +  10 

(15) 


Thus,  the  Son  of  man  and  the  Son  of  God  one  and  the  same. 

Certainly  no  more  whole  and  eternal  phrase  than  that 
name  whereby  was  Moses  to  make  known  their  God  to  the 
Children  of  Israel  could  be  imagined.  I  AM  THAT  I  AM  is  repre- 
sented by  the  figure  15.  The  Word  (666)  'fetragrams  on  the 
number  15. 

When  the  symbols  of  Word  went  forth  from  Babel  as  scat- 
tered tongues,  not  the  slightest  possibility  of  man's  future 
was  overlooked;  nor  was  he  to  be  permitted  the  knowledge 
of  Wholeness  that  comes  in  revelation  until  such  time  when 
he  should  conditionally  be  ready  for  its  unfoldment,  until  the 
Scripture  was  fulfilled,  as  says  Holy  Bible.  Thus,  as  we  have 
seen,  was  entrusted  to  the  keeping  of  the  blue-painted,  nose- 
ringed  Britain  the  knowledge  in  use, — and  not  overly  intelli- 
gent use, — of  the  sacred  symbol  of  Presence,  Presentation, 
Dedication,  the  letter  "U."  And  now,  finally,  do  we  find  the 
one  Whole  symbol,  the  combination  of  all  symbols,  figures, 
and  laws,  entrusted  alone,  and  solely,  to  a  race  of  humans 
from  whom  betrayal  of  its  meaning  was  impossible;  who, 
knowing  nothing  of  the  value  of  this  imperishable  heirloom, 
yet  worshiped  such  as  the  symbol  of  the  Great  Spirit  Him- 
self, and  who  are,  or  were,  the  original  denizens  of  this 
country  whose  first  written  document  frames  the  very  essence 


104  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

of  Pyramidal  lore  stamped  with  the  chief  symbols  of  the  Pyra- 
mid,— the  real  American,  the  North  American  Indian. 

Zealously  guarded  by  him,  as  a  fetish  of  good  luck,  in  coun- 
cil and  kiva,  this  figure  is  formed  by  joining  the  male  and  fe- 
male figures  of  the  alphabet  in  the  form  of  a  cross  with  added 
extended  arms  pointing  ever  westwards,  from  which  is  its 
name,  Swastika, — S-was-tik-a>  (i)S-west-take-U(ur),  i.  e. 
"west  take"  the  sacred  symbol  found  among  the  Picts  of 
Britain.  And  westward  it  went,  as  far  westward  as  geographi- 
cally possible,  which  automatically  becomes  eastward  again, 
and  westward  the  course  of  empire  wended  to  recover  its 
meaning  of  Presence,  Dedication,  dedicating  the  first  docu- 
ment of  the  most  westward  country  to  the  purports  of  the 
Great  Pyramid,  the  Eternality  of  God  and  the  Sonhood  of 
man.  For  this  figure  of  the  Swastika  is  but  the  unfolding 
figure  of  the  Great  Pyramid,  the  Peer-amid,  the  cradle  of 
Wisdom. 

Starting  with  the  dot,  at  once  the  starting  and  stopping 
place,  four  straight  lines  are  drawn  therefrom  to  four  equi- 
distant points,  in  symbol  of  the  base  lines  of  the  square.  At 
once  the  four  ^fs,  ARTICULATION,  are  apparent,  the  letters 
I,  X,  L  (I  excel),  and  the  letters  O,  V,  T  (overt),  also  the 
figures  i  (one)  and  o: 


Placing  the  completing  arms,  pointing  westward,  on  the 
figure,  to  complete  the  Swastika,  the  letters  Z,  H,  and  N  be- 
come apparent,  the  figures  2  and  4,  and  having  already  ac- 
counted for  the  dot,  the  period,  and  the  little  circle,  which  are 
the  starting  point,  we  have  revealed  also  in  this  second  step  of 
unfoldment,  the  triangle,  square,  the  conventional  four-leaf 


THE  GREAT  ONE  105 

clover,  and  the  compass,  also  the  combinations  of  the  various 
letters  to  be  arrived  at  by  those  already  given.  Here,  then, 
are  at  once  the  fundamental  laws  of  mathematics,  arithmetic 
and  geometry,  of  literature,  and  botany,  of  astrology: 


For,  overlaying  the  four  original  straight  lines  with  the  curved 
line  of  Truth,  the  Swastika  again  unfolds  the  petals  of  knowl- 
edge like  a  wondrous  beauty  flower,  and  there  lie  revealed  to 
us  in  all  the  purity  of  Creation  the  U,  the  W,  the  S,  the  C,  and 
the  D,  among  others,  the  bladed  screw  of  propulsion,  the 
Egyptian  lotus,  which  is  the  lily,  the  serpent,  the  female  form, 
the  human  lips,  the  lines  of  the  Etruscan  vase,  the  nuptial 
flight  of  the  Queen  Bee, — and  in  short  every  law  of  the  fine 
arts  and  the  useful  arts  known  to  mankind. 

^ 


\ 


It  is  with  regret  this  manuscript  turns  from  a  revelation  so 
wonderful  and  beautiful,  but  space  does  not  permit  the 
further  following  of  these  revelations  here,  and  the  purport  of 
this  work  is  but  to  indicate  the  direction  to  be  traversed,  not 
to  work  out  the  whole  and  so  deprive  the  reader  of  his  part  of 
collaboration  therein.  To  those  desiring  to  further  observe  the 
revealments  of  the  Swastika,  the  following  out  of  the  figure 
along  these  lines  will  reveal  all,  for  the  process  is  merely  logi- 
cal and  sequential,  the  secret  thereof  the  establishing  of  the 
dot,  or  placing  the  dot  where  it  belongs  over  the  "I,"  (in  the 


106  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Swastika  as  the  conjunctive  point  of  the  "I  "s),  thus  lighting 
the  Eye.  And  to  light  the  Eye,  is  to  acknowledge  the  Presence 
of  the  Light,— the  All-Father,  "The  Father  of  lights,  with 
whom  is  no  variableness,  neither  shadow  of  turning." 

This  figure  of  the  Swastika  was  the  knowledge  to  be  re- 
vealed to  the  children  of  Israel,  the  I  AM  THAT  I  AM,  the 
symbolic  expression  of  the  Great  Pyramid  inspired  by  Wis- 
dom, which  is  God.  What  words  other  than  I  AM  THAT  I 
AM  could  describe  such  a  symbol,  and  such  a  revealing? 

I  AM  THAT  I  AM,  Consciousness  of  (15)  Location. 

Events  do  not  "happen."  If  one  admits  this,  one  must  logi- 
cally carry  such  admission  to  its  last  analysis  and  admit  that 
anything  may  "happen,"  which  is  to  deny  all  laws  of  ethics, 
philosophy,  mathematics,  and  the  balance  of  averages.  And  as 
neither  business  nor  the  laws  of  ordinary  life  are  conducted 
on  such  haphazard  philosophy,  it  is  but  just  to  assume  that 
neither  are  the  affairs  of  the  Universe.  Consequently,  it  fol- 
lows that  if  the  Swastika  was  entrusted  to  the  most  westerly  of 
all  peoples,  itself  a  symbol  with  arms  pointing  ever  westward, 
and  with  the  very  name  of  west  in  its  makeup,  such  must  have 
been  for  some  definite  purpose.  On  unfoldment,  this  purpose 
is  easily  manifest. 

And  what  of  the  fact  that  this  symbol,  itself  taken  from  the 
Great  Pyramidal  system,  foreran  the  inception  of  a  newest 
country  reviving  in  its  first  document,  in  its  appointed  lead- 
ers, and  in  its  coinage,  the  very  symbols  of,  and  only  of,  the 
Great  Pyramid,  Masonry,  as  well  as  of  the  purports  of  that 
Structure  and  of  the  Holy  Bible?  In  order  to  avoid  suspicion 
of  design,  it  becomes  here  necessary  that  the  author  admit  he 
is  not,  has  never  been,  nor  contemplates  application  to  be- 
come, one  of  that  truly  magnificent  body  of  world's  citizens 
styling  themselves  Free-Masons.  This  explanation  is  ren- 
dered solely  lest  it  be  assumed  that  he  holds  a  brief  in  these 
frequent  references  to  Masonry. 


THE  GREAT  ONE  107 

The  word  Swastika  is  written  (visually),  S-w-a-s-t-i-k-a;  pro- 
nounced (audibly),  S-w-a-s-t-i-k-u :  full  value,  S-w-a-s-t-i- 
k-u-a;  composition  of  9  (Evolution)  integers. 

S — INSPIRATION,  and  EXPIRATION  27 

w — VOLITION  33 

a — EXPANSION  3 

s — EXPIRATION,  INSPIRATION  27 

t — COMPLETION  29 

i — CONFIRMATION  15 

k — BALANCE,  ATTENTION  18 

u — IG-NORANCE,  SECLUSION,  INTERIORITY  31 

a — ATTRACTION  i 


Total  184 

4+4 

COMPLETION 
The  Swastika  when  truly  drawn  presents  the  two  figures  8, 

C\|/O|     With  its  two  arms  only,     ^n | 

C7K)     it  is  the  two  figures  4.    I    C 

The  two  figures  are  the  male  and  female  expression  (see  7V/- 
ragram)  of  the  whole  number  of  "Swastika,"  which  whole 
number  is  one-eight-four.  It  may  also  be  read  (i8)-K  (4)  A, 
and  as  such  is  that  expression  used  in  the  Egyptian  Book  of 
the  Dead  relative  to  the  breathing-0&/,  and  iny  the  ^piration 
and  /aspiration,  of  Soul,  Kay  and  the  double  Ka. 

Prior  to  the  time  that  modern  Science  took  a  hand  in  recog- 
nizing the  Great  Pyramid  as  a  monument  of  oriented  Lore,  it 
was  the  fashion  among  certain  so-called  scientists  to  refer  to 
the  Great  Pyramid  as  either  a  tomb,  or  a  jail, — that  is,  a 
place  intended  for  the  incarceration  of  offenders,  a  sort  of 
ancient  Bastile.  The  absurdity  of  either  of  these  claims  has 
become,  through  the  efforts  of  modern  science,  too  manifest 
to  require  further  comment,  nevertheless  the  claim  that  the 


io8  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Great  Pyramid  may  have  once  been  a  sort  of  glorified  jail  af- 
fords here  opportunity  to  test  such  word  with  the  Tetragram, 
more  especially  as  the  two  great  nations  of  English-speaking 
peoples  pronounce  this  word  similarly,  although  writing  it 
quite  differently.  For  while  the  American  calls  this  place  a 
"jail,"  the  Englishman  with  equal  persistence  insists  that  it 
is  a  "gaol."  Let  us  see  how  either  regards  the  purports  of  such 
place. 

J — DIRECTION  16 

a — ATTRACTION  i 

i — ASSERTION  14 

It  is  ASSERTION  ATTRACTED  in  the  wrong  DIRECTION  that 
gets  the  offender  against  society  into  jail. 

1 — ACQUISITION  19 

And  this  ASSERTION  is  the  desire  for  ACQUISITION  by  (19) 
VIOLENCE,  which  by  such  is  miscalled  VOLITION. 

Total 


J-a-i-1,  15,  Location.  An  utter  description  of  it,  and  of  its 
purport;  also  possibly  the  psychological  reason  why  the 
quasi-scientist  rushed  into  the  conclusion  that  the  Great 
Pyramid  must  have  been  intended  as  a  place  of  incarceration. 
However,  to  the  Englishman,  this  place  is  a 

J — DIRECTION  16 

g — RELEASMENT  (the  tearful  eye)  12 

a — ATTRACTION  i 

o — COMPREHENSION,!NCLUSION  (walled  in)  22 

1 — ACQUISITION  19 


70 
10+7 


THE  GREAT  ONE  109 

Thus,  to  the  American  a  jail  is  a  place  of  location  for  the 
unfortunate,  or  a  place  where  he  may  recover  his  balance,  his 
poise,  his  one-tiveness,  while  to  the  Englishman  such  is  a 
place  of  tuition  to  the  offender,  where  he  becomes  one-seven, 
or  changed.  Alphabetically,  to  the  American  jail  is  a  place  of 
(I)  enlightenment;  to  the  Englishman,  (J)  a  place  of  in- 
clining the  wayward.  And  the  difference  is  to  be  regarded  in 
the  integers  expressing  sorrow  (12)  and  inclusion,  or  en- 
compass (22),  wherewith  the  Englishman  makes  manifest 
his  idea  of  the  intent  of  such  place. 

To  anyone  familiar  with  the  conduct  of  English  prison  life 
and  American  prison  life,  this  word  analysis  and  ^etragr  anting 
of  these  two  words  will  be  sufficient;  and  for  those  not  so  in- 
formed, the  author  takes  the  liberty  of  suggesting  an  inspec- 
tion of  the  nearest  place  of  incarceration,  or  a  few  short  hours 
of  reading  in  any  public  library  among  any  number  of  works 
dealing  with  this  subject  in  all  countries.  Perhaps,  for  the 
American,  Oscar  Wilde's  De  Profundis,  or  The  Ballad  of  Read- 
ing Gaol,  will  be  found  as  instructive  as  any  works  in  the 
matter  of  illustrating  the  differences  between  the  English  and 
American  prison  systems. 

To  the  charge  that  the  Great  Pyramid  is  a  tomb,  the  Tetra- 
gram  answers: 

T  —  LIMITATION,  COMPLETION,  FINALITY  29 

o  —  DESTRUCTION,  REPLETION  23 

m  —  ACCEPTATION  20 

b  —  EXPRESSION,  PROPULSION  5 

77 
7+5 


/W-VOLUTION 

To-M,  whereby  was  produced  Death,  the  wages  of  Sin. 
Hardly  a  description,  however,  of  the  Great  Pyramid. 


no  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

S — INSPIRATION,  EXPIRATION  27 

i — CONFIRMATION  (con-formation)  15 

n — DEPENDENCE  (in  this  case)  21 


63 

3+6 


/^-VOLUTION 

/w-volved  in  both  Sin  and  'Tomb.  £-in,  or  inner  darkness. 

D  —  CLOSED  EYE,  WARNING  8 

a  —  EXPANSION  3 

r  —  EXCISION,  PREPARATION  26 

(The  darkest  hour  of  Night  is  that  which  prepares  for  the 
Dawn.  Before  the  hour  of  evolution,  on  the  Cross,  darkness 
was  over  the  whole  land.) 

k  —  SUSPENSION,  ATTENTION  18 

n  —  DEPENDENCE  21 

u  —  PRESENCE  30 

("....  If  I  make  my  bed  in  hell,  behold,  thou  art  there." 
Psalm  139:8.) 

e  —  EVOLUTION  9 

(That  letter  made  alphabetic  by  the  Hour  of  Darkness, 

Eve.) 

s  —  INSPIRATION,  EXPIRATION  27 

s  —  INSPIRATION,  EXPIRATION  27 


169 
9+7 


Observe  the  Male  and  Female  Consciousness  States  as  de- 
scriptive of  the  Crucifixion.  It  was  about  the  seventh  hour, — 


THE  GREAT  ONE  in 

preceding  the  hour  of  evolution  (9), — that  darkness  was  over 
the  whole  land,  and  Jesus  cried  with  a  loud  voice  for 

L — ACQUISITION  (overcoming)  19 

i — EGO,  INDIVIDUALITY  14 

g — RELEASMENT,  FRUITION  12 

h — SYNTHESIS,  CONVENTION  13 

t — CESSATION,  COMPLETION  29 


8? 

7  +  6 
@ 

PARTURITION, 
RELEASMENT,  OPENING 

We  call  Darkness  Death,  and  Light  Life. 

D — CLOSED  EYE,  GUIDANCE  8 

e — ATTENUATION,  EFFORT,  STRUGGLE  10 

a — ATTRACTION  (to  otherness)  i 

t — LIMITATION,  FINALITY,  COMPLETION  29 

h — SYNTHESIS,  CONVENTION  13 


61 


COMPLETION, 
ENDING 

Actually,  ending  is  but  beginning.  Even  in  this  mortal  life, 
the  completion  of  a  thing  is  but  the  beginning  of  something 
other,  for  Evolution  must  evolute.  Where,  then,  is  thy  sting, 
O  Death  ?  Where,  Grave,  thy  victory  ?  The  processes  of  Death 
are  but  those  of  sleep,  wherein  we  dream  anew  to  other  efforts. 

S  —  INSPIRATION,  EXPIRATION  27 

1  —  ACQUISITION,  OVERCOME  19 


ii2  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

e — EVOLUTION  9 

e — EVOLUTION  (Issuance)  9 

p — EXPECTATION,  PROVISION  24 
(Called  a  wise  and  kind  provision  of  Nature.) 

88 
8+7 


Re-located:  alphabetically,  ("I"),  con-formed, — made  anew, 
refreshed.  All  of  which  are  but  the  processes  of  the  simulation 
of  Death,  Sleep. 
In  sleep  we 

D — CLOSED  EYE  8 

r — EXCISION,  PREPARATION  26 

(The  symbol  of  the  female  breast  discharging  its  milky  com- 
plement. Observe  how  generally  the  "dreamer"  drools ,  that 
is,  waters  at  the  mouth  after  the  fashion  of  one,  helpless, 
feeding.) 

e — ISSUANCE,  EVOLUTION  9 

a — ATTRACTION  i 

m — RECEPTIVITY  20 


64 
4+10 


^-creation;  re-imagery;  re-membering;  re-collecting. 
Not  in  opposition  to  these,  but  utterly  apart  from  such  is 

L — ACQUISITION,  OVERCOMING  19 

i — EGO,  INDIVIDUALITY  14 

f — SUBMISSION,  DISCRETION  n 


THE  GREAT  ONE  113 

e — EVOLUTION  o 


53 

3  +  8 
© 

/^-VOLUTION 

^-volution  is  the  eternal  circle,  which  is  Mind.  Its  integers 
are  those  two  alphabetic  expressions  which  stand  for  Male 
and  Female,  which  united  as  man,  are  the  image  and  likeness 
of  God.  These  two  figures  (n)  are  equally  proportioned, 
without  the  necessity  of  the  symbol  of  lust  connecting. 

For  the  symbol  of  lust,  even  when  performing  the  act  of 
connection,  yet  stands  as  a  bar  of  separation.  The  knowledge 
of  the  existence  of  such  serves  as  a  constant  barrier  between 
male  and  female,  whereby,  although  created  equally  in  the 
image  and  likeness  of  God,  can  neither  mingle  with  the  other 
in  utter  freedom,  seldom  without  desire  or  fear.  And  slavery, 
desire,  and  fear  are  but  the  attributes  of  lust.  Not  by  Lust, 
but  by  Love,  is  the  Brotherhood  of  man  accomplished. 

Just  as  the  author  of  this  offering  holds  no  brief  for  Free- 
Masonry,  neither  for  Christian  Science,  nor  for  Romanism, 
Anglicanism,  Protestantism,  nor  any  sect  or  creed,  so,  too 
does  he  hold  no  brief  for  Equal  Suffrage  as  a  political  move- 
ment. Nevertheless,  he  feels  bounden  to  point  out  that  no 
geometrization  can  ever  be  perfect  that  does  not  account 
equally  for  the  female,  for  geometrization  in  its  first  and  last 
analysis  is  tri-angulation,  tri-unition,  tri-unity,  Trinity;  and 
Trinity  is  the  Whole  expression  of  God  (Word).  Further, 
without  this  expression  of  male  and  female,  "rightly  divided" 
we  have  no  word  of  Truth,  no  Christ,  no  All-Father,  who 
states  plainly  in  Genesis  1 126-27,  "in  our  image,  after  our  like- 
ness," creating  them,  "in  his  own  image  [and  likeness],  in  the 
image  of  God  created  he  him;  male  and  female  created  he 
them." 


1 14  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Equality  is  balance.  The  opposite  of  balance  is  insanity. 
On  the  balance  of  a  business  house  rests  its  success;  its  un- 
balance preludes  but  swift  disaster.  Though  man  is  the  ser- 
vant of  God,  no  man  was  created  the  servant  of  another,  and 
man  is  male  and  female. 

But  be  not  ye  called  Rabbi: 
for  one  is  your  Master,  even 
Christ;  and  all  ye  are  brethren. 

St.  Matthew  23  [REPLETION]:  8  [COMPLETION] 

or  Be  not  ye  called  Rabbi:  for  one  is  your  Master,  even  Christ; 
and  all  ye  are  brethren. 

The  Christ  is  the  Word  of  Truth,  admittedly.  To  "rightly 
divide"  the  Word  of  Truth  male  and  female  must  receive 
utter  equality.  For  the  demonstration  of  this  was  the  Tetra- 
gram  devised. 

The  two  opposing  elements  are  the  so-called  power  of  Lust, 
and  the  power  of  Love.  The  former  makes  for  inequality,  the 
latter  produces  perfect  equality.  In  the  verse  above  quoted, 
we  are  informed  that  "even  Christ"  is  our  Master,  not  odd 
Christ. 

L — ACQUISITION  19 

u — IGNORANCE,  SECLUSION  31 

s — EXPIRATION  27 

t — LIMITATION,  FINISH  29 


1 06 
6+7 


SEPARATION, 
and  foetal  birth 

L — ACQUISITION  19 

u — IGNORANCE,  SECLUSION  31 

o — COMPREHENSION,  INCLUSION  22 


THE  GREAT  ONE  115 

v — INCURSION  32 

e — EVOLUTION  9 


COMPLETION 
Fruition,  Wholly,  Holy  (Immortality) 

13  is  the  alphabetic  sign  of  the  tearful  Eye;  8  of  the  closed 
eye,  the  "  blindness,"  and  kindness,  of  Love.  Also  the  G  is  the 
broken  circle,  and  the  8  is  the  combination  of  two  circles. 
Their  added  together  whole  expression,  'Tetragramed,  results 
in  the  numerical  13,  Parturition.  For,  says  the  Poet-Astrol- 
oger of  Naishapur,  "'tis  but  a  hair  divides  the  false  and 
True," — but,  oh,  what  an  across! 

It  is  in  the  I3th  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Revelation  wherein 
its  author  informs  us  of  the  acme  of  wisdom,  which  is  the 
numbering  of  the  Beast  (666),  that  we  learn  also  of  a  second 
Beast.  Receiving  its  power  apparently  from  the  same  source 
as  the  first  Beast, — for  it  spake  after  its  sign,  or  constellation, 
"as  a  dragon," — this  second  beast  is  described  as  being  "like 
a  lamb"  (Rev.  13:11).  Elsewhere  throughout  this  Book  of 
Revelation,  time  after  time,  the  Lamb  is  identified  with  the 
Christ,  the  expression  of  God  (Word).  Obviously,  then,  these 
two  beasts  identify  themselves  with  the  Word  made  flesh  and 
with  the  Word  of  Truth.  The  Word  made  Flesh  was  Jesus, 
mortal;  the  Word  of  Truth,  the  Christ  which  Jesus,  mortal, 
by  process  of  crucifixion  overcame  to  immortality.  In  best 
phraseology,  therefore,  the  two  beasts  receive  expression, 
when  the  second  is  lifted  from  mortality  by  the  +  cross,  as 
JESUS  the  CHRIST  in  entirety.  O 

J — DIRECTION  16 

e — EVOLUTION,  ISSUANCE  9 


n6  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

z — INSISTENCE,  DEMAND,  CONTINUITY  36 

s — INSPIRATION,  EXPIRATION  27 

u — PRESENCE,  DEDICATION  30 

s — EXPIRATION,  INSPIRATION  27 

145 

5  +  10 
© 

LOCATION 
1 5  is  the  Tetragramed  number  of  I  AM. 

K — BALANCE,  ATTENTION  1 8 

c — CONTEMPLATION  6 

h — CONVENTION  13 

r — PREPARATION,  EXCISION  26 

i — ASSERTION,  EGO  14 

s — EXPIRATION,  INSPIRATION  27 
t — FINALITY,  CONCLUSION,  COMPLETION      29 


133 

3+7 


CONSERVATION 
Jesus-Christ,—  145  +  133=278 

8  +  8 
@  FUNCTION  (One-sex  16). 

This,  the  completion  of  the  Pyramid  by  added  capstone  ex- 

presses. 

t  —  COMPLETION  29 

h  —  CONVENTION,  SYNTHESIS  13 

e  —  EVOLUTION  9 

u  —  IG-NORANCE,  INTERIORITY,  SECLUSION    31 


82 


THE  GREAT  ONE  117 

Jesus-the-Christ, — 145  +  82+133=360 

10+9 
@  VOLITION 

19,  Volition, — the  Line  of  Beauty  which  is  the  Way,  which 
in  the  New  Testament  Jesus  the  Christ  called  Himself.  The  al- 
phabetic I9th  symbol  is  the  letter  "|^,." 

The  Beast  raised  to  the  I9th  power  (of  courses)  becomes 
automatically  the  twentieth  power,  REALIZATION.  Jesus  the 
Christ,  then,  typifies  the  first  beast,  which,  raised  to  its  place, 
is  the  first  and  second  beast.  This  second  beast  must  there- 
fore receive  expression  in  Tetragramatic  processes  whereby 
we  "rightly  divide"  the  word  of  Truth. 

As  the  Lamb,  represented  by  the  second  beast,  is  obviously 
the  "gentle,"  or  /^turned,  one,  mathematical  expression  of 
this  entity  is  obtainable  by  /^turning  or  turning  in,  the 
figures  female-/y.  And  again  Holy  Bible  and  Great  Pyramid 
absolutely  confirm  each  other. 


THE  ALPHABET 

(In-voluted) 

A       i 

I 

a       2 

2 

a      3 

3 

a       4 

4 

B      5 

5 

C      6 

6 

c      7 

7 

D       8 

8 

E      9 

9 

e     10 

10 

F     ii 

2 

G       12 

3 

H     13 

4 

I     14 

5 

u8  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 


i 

15 

6 

J 

16 

7 

j 

17 

8 

K 

18 

9 

L 

19 

10 

M 

20 

2 

N 

21 

3 

0 

22 

4 

o 

23 

5 

P 

24 

6 

Q 

25 

7 

R 

26 

8 

S 

27 

9 

s 

28 

10 

T 

29 

2 

U 

30 

3 

u 

31 

4 

V 

32 

5 

W 

33 

6 

X 

34 

7 

Y 

35 

8 

Z 

36 

9 

666 

207 

6+9 

7+9 

15+16 

@  Life,  Being,  Tri-unity, 
Light. 

Also  the  figure  "i"  (one)  is  the  letter  "I"  (eye).  The  letter 
"I"  denotes  Light,  Sight.  In  the  Sin  of  the  Ages  it  received 
attempted  anthropomorphic  expression  as  the  phallic  symbol, 
being  regarded  as  the  creative  organ  by  man,  whereby  they  be- 


THE  GREAT  ONE  119 

came  man  and  woman.  God  (Word)  is  the  "I,"  or  Eye,  the 
Light;  in  Egyptian  masonry,  Ra(y). 

Said  the  Son  of  Ra(y),  Osiris,  who  in  the  Holy  Bible  is 
called  Jesus  the  Christ: 

"And  I  [Eye],  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all 
men  unto  me,"  St.  John  12:32,  and,  "I  and  my  Father  are 


For  "  I,"  and  "  I  "  (one),  are  purely  unitive  in  processes  and 
expression,  and  when  lifted  atop  the  Great  Pyramid  draw  all 
men  unto,  and  into,  one  ("I"). 

Egyptian  Masonry  is  the  process  whereby  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid, with  All-Seeing  Eye,  was  constructed.  This  Masonry  had 
its  own  particular  symbolic  expression,  even  as  has  all  subse- 
quent mental,  religious  movement,  from  Confucianism  to 
Christian  Science.  The  Egyptian  Mason  recognized  a  Trinity, 
and  a  Trinity  only.  He  represented  this  Trinity  by  three  Ex- 
pressions of  the  All-Father,  Ra  (Ray),  the  Light.  These 
expressions  were,  Osiris,  the  Son;  Isis,  the  daughter;  and  Nep- 
thys,  the  sister  of  Isis.  Osiris  represented  the  male  of  the 
Word;  Isis,  the  female  of  the  Word;  and  Nepthys,  the  con- 
firmation, or  con-formation,  of  the  two.  Hence,  Osiris  was,  as 
his  name  indicates,  the  Son  of  Light,  or  Sight  projected;  Isis, 
insight;  and  Nepthys,  the  Veiled  Sight.  This  composition 
completed  the  Triune  expression  of  Ra,  or  Light,  the  All- 
Seeing  Eye,  as  the  Word  of  Truth. 

In  conformity  with  this  triune  Expression  of  Word,  it  is 
necessary  then  to  account  for  Nepthys,  the  Veiled  expression 
of  Word,  and  as  the  veiling  is  the  darkening,  or  //^turning  of 
sight,  obviously  to  procure  a  numerical  expression  of  such  we 
must  resort  again  to  the  mathematicism  of  involuted  figures. 

Visual  expression,  W-o-r-d;  audible  expression,  W-o-e-d; 
triune  expression,  W-o-e-r-d. 

W  —  VOLITION  33 

o  —  COMPREHENSION  22 


120  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

e — ATTENUATION  10 

r — PREPARATION  26 

d — GUIDANCE  8 

99 
9+9 

1 8, — Consciousness  of  Co-ordination,  integerically  divided 
into  a  male  and  female  expression  of  Evolution.  This,  then, 
procures  us  an  expression  of  the  composition  of  the  Word  as 
Father.  To  obtain  the  Motherhood  of  God  (Word)  it  is  neces- 
sary to  find  an  expression  for  Nepthys,  thus: 

Evolutional  expression  Involutional  expres- 
in  combined  male  and  sion  of  these  corn- 
female  integers.  bined  integers. 

W  33  6 

O  22  4 

e  10  10 

r  26  8 

d  8  8 

That  is,  by  again  /^turning  or  adding  these  combined  integers 
of  the  alphabet,  even  as  we  /Vzturn  the  Whole  expression  of  a 
word  Tetragramatically  to  obtain  a  Consciousness  Expression 
of  the  same,  and  not  allowing  the  integer  so  inturned  to  ob- 
tain above  the  number  ten  (10),  we  procure  numerically  an 
expression  of  the  "Veiled  Sight,"  which  is,  of  course,  the 
Hearing,  or  Sound.  Thus  in  our  full  Tetragram  we  have  the 
added  together  alphabet  which  gives  us  that  combined  ex- 
pression of  Word  which  is  Biblically  called  man,  and  which  is 
Sight,  and  the  Consciousness  expression  of  man,  which  is 
Sound.  Completing  the  expression  of  the  word, — 


THE  GREAT  ONE  121 

SIGHT  SOUND 

Total      99  36 

9  +  9  6+9 

®  © 

Word,  thus,  gives  a  grand  total  of  33,  or  of  18  +  15.  This  33 
represents  the  courses  necessary  to  the  final  degree  of  Free- 
Masonry,  the  lifetime  of  Jesus  the  Christ,  and  the  unit  dis- 
tance between  the  King's  and  Queen's  Chambers  in  the  Great 
Pyramid.  33  consciously  reduces  itself  to  3,  A,  as  repre- 
sentative of  W-o-r-d. 

Even  as  with  every  other  of  the  Laws  of  the  Universe  are 
the  processes  whereby  we  become  named.  In  the  Bible  it  is  to 
be  noted  very  careful  attention  has  been  paid  to  the  naming 
of  the  various  people  appointed  to  carry  out  certain  projects, 
and  definite  reasons  for  the  giving  of  such  certain  names  are 
quite  emphatically  told.  In  the  case  of  Jesus,  it  may  be  re- 
called, His  birth  was  foretold  under  the  name  EMANUEL 
(E-man-u-well),  but  upon  the  assumption  of  the  role  of  the 
Christ  by  Him  His  name  became  Jesus  (J-Js-S,  the  Way). 
Saul,  so  soon  as  a  definite  constructive  purpose  was  manifest 
to  him,  superseding  the  destructive  one  of  his  election,  became 
automatically  Paul,  and  constant  changes  of  this  sort  are  too 
familiar  to  be  in  need  of  repetition  here.  Even  the  very  names 
of  the  Almighty  undergo  as  many  as  five  distinct  changes 
in  Genesis  alone,  all  under  the  personal  supervision  of  God 
Himself.  When  we  apparently  create,  that  is,  repeat,  an 
object,  or  a  purpose,  we  name  such,  even  as  when  we  write 
a  book.  Man  as  an  integer  of  Word  would  logically  have  a 
name, — as  many  names  as  purposes  to  be  fulfilled. 

There  exists  obvious  reason  why  we  may  shorten  Thomas 
to  'Tom,  but  none  why  we  should  call  Richard  Dick,  William 
Bill.  And  although  Elizabeth  abbreviated  to  Lizzy  is  partly 
sequential,  Peggy  for  Margaret  is  as  inexplainable  as  Ted  for 
Theodore  or  Ned  for  Edward.  Then  there  are  the  various  nick- 


122  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

names  we  have  fastened  upon  us  from  time  to  time,  account- 
able for  only  as  the  appearance  of  ourselves  to  those  inflicting 
such  names  upon  us.  For  while  one  boy  may,  for  instance, 
impress  a  schoolfellow  as  sufficiently  like  a  "tadpole"  to  earn 
from  the  mouth  of  such  schoolfellow  this  nickname,  it  is  not 
probable  that  this  appellation  would  appeal  to  its  unfortunate 
wearer  as  at  all  true  to  himself.  And  in  accepting,  and  answer- 
ing to,  such  name,  he  more  than  likely  but  yields  to  force 
majeure. 

Why,  for  example,  should  Richard  be  called  Dick? 

R — EXCISION,  PREPARATION  26  8 
i — CONFIRMATION  15  6 
c — CONSIDERATION  7  7 
h — CONVENTION,  SYNTHESIS  13  4 
u — PRESENCE,  DEDICATION  30  3 
a — ATTRACTION  i  i 
r — EXCISION,  PREPARATION  26  8 
d — GUIDANCE,   WARNING,   ADMO- 
NITION 8  8 


126  45 

6+9         5+9 


EVOLUTION,  ISSUANCE 

To  anyone  familiar  with  the  literature  of  a  century  or  so 
ago,  it  will  be  at  once  apparent,  both  from  the  two  ultimates 
(15  and  14),  and  from  the  Grand  Ultimate  (9),  why  Ben- 
jamin Franklin  selected  the  name  of  Richard  for  the  hero  of 
his  Almanack. 

D — GUIDANCE,  WARNING,  ADMONITION    8          8 
i — CONFIRMATION,  CONFORMATION       15          6 


THE  GREAT  ONE  123 

c  —  CONTEMPLATION  6          6 

k  —  HESITATION,  ATTENTION  18          9 

47        29 
7  +  2    9 


+2 
© 


n 

This  Grand  Ultimate  (9)  in  Richard's  name  may  serve  to 
explain  why  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion  chose  to  become  crusa- 
der, even  at  the  risk  of  his  crown. 

Richard  makes  a  good  soldier,  sailor,  or  adventurer,  because 
he  has  strongly  implanted  in  him  the  purport  of  issuance. 
This  latter  should  be  evolutional,  for  that  is  Richard's  cross  in 
life,  the  processes  of  which  are  integerically  given  in  his  name. 
Dick  is  inclined  to  be  passionate  and  changeable  in  the  ex- 
treme. He  acts  on  impulse,  and  is  easily  led.  His  lovable  quali- 
ties are  always  apparent,  yet  he  is  wayward.  In  the  Grand 
Ultimate  of  Dick's  name  (20)  is  the  crux,  for  he  may  elect  to 
make  this  Reality  either  Spiritual  or  Material,  Love  or  Lust. 
W  —  VOLITION  33  6 

i  —  CONFIRMATION,  CLARIFICATION  15  6 

1  —  ACQUISITION,  CONQUEST  19  10 

1  —  ACQUISITION,  CONQUEST  19  10 

i  —  ASSERTION  14  5 

a  —  ATTRACTION  i  i 

y  —  RECOGNITION  35  8 

u  —  PRESENCE,  DEDICATION  30  3 

m  —  ACCEPTATION  20  2 


186          51 
6+6       1+6 

12+7 

OLITION. 


124  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

William  crossed  (7)  the  seas  to  the  conquest  (19)  of  England, 
— that  is,  to  graft  the  Norman  tongue  on  the  Saxon  of  the 
Angle;  and  with  the  battle  of  Hastings  the  Saxon  passed  (7), 
and  the  present  sturdy  race  of  Englishmen  was  born. 

B — EXPRESSION,  PROPULSION              5  5 

i — CONFIRMATION,  CONFORMATION  15  6 

1 — ACQUISITION                                  19  10 

1 — ACQUISITION                                  19  10 


58          31 
8+4      1+4 

©          © 

12+5 

© 

A  bill  is  an  accounting  of  credit  primarily,  intended  to  inform 
us  of  our  indebtedness.  It  is  also  clearly  a  teaching  in  the 
matter  of  expenditure,  of  balance,  and  of  prudence,  as  is  its 
dollar  namesake.  When  applied  to  man  it  suggests  strength  of 
purpose  and  determination,  even  domination, — all  of  which 
are  hallmarks  of  what  we  think  the  teacher. 

The  Great  Teacher  does  not  force  His  presence  or  doctrine 
upon  us.  He  presents  such  to  our  consideration,  then  leaves  us 
absolutely  free  choice.  If  we  decline,  He  does  not  call  us  fools. 
He  calls  us  always  and  ever  His  children,  and  says  that  as 
such,  whatever  we  may  conceive  individually  of  our  impor- 
tance and  mentalities,  we  are  all  equally  His  children,  male 
and  female,  and  that  our  name  is  man.  It  is  indeed  a  hard, 
hard  lesson  to  learn. 

These  examples,  as  indeed  all  others  in  this  offering,  have 
been  picked  without  purpose  aforethought  by  the  author, 
other  than  as  led  by  the  text  of  this  matter.  Their  adapta- 
bility to  the  illustration  in  hand  is  in  the  province  of  the  great 
ONE  for  revealment. 


THE  GREAT  ONE  125 

It  should  be  here  noted,  —  and  has  not  been  remarked  on 
before,  of  purpose,  —  that  the  female  figures  of  both  the  Sound 
and  Sight  Tetragrams  are  always  the  same  numerically,  hence 
Consciously.  As  a  mathematical  phenomenon  explanation  of 
this  is  only  to  be  found  in  the  realm  of  the  Spiritual,  and 
thither  the  individual  user  of  the  ^Tetragram  is  directed  by 
this  work.  This  sameness  of  the  Female  figures  in  both  'Tetra- 
grams  of  any  one  word,  however,  is  the  reason  for  the  sym- 
bolic mythology  of  Egyptian  Masonry.  In  ^etragr  anting  it  is 
an  absolute  check  upon  the  trueness  of  the  integerical  ulti- 
mates. 

Neither  the  purpose  of  this  offering,  nor  the  Line  of  Beauty, 
which  is  the  sole  way  to  mastery,  permit  that  we  pass  from 
this  Part  without  a  Tetragramatic  expression  of  woman. 

M  —  ACCEPTATION  20  2 

a  —  ATTRACTION  i  i 

e  —  EFFORT,  ATTENUATION  10  10 

r  —  PREPARATION  26  8 
i  —  CLARIFICATION,  CONFIRMATION, 

CONFORMATION  15  6 

y  —  RECOGNITION  35  8 

107         35 
7+8       5  +  8 


Mary  was  the  mother  of  Jesus,  Biblically.  If  the  reader  will 
turn  to  the  story  of  the  Annunciation  of  the  coming  birth  of 
Jesus,  to  Mary,  the-mother-to-be,  as  told  in  the  Gospel  ac- 
cording to  St.  Luke,  beginning  with  the  song  of  Mary 
(chapter  i  :  verse  46)  : 

46:  ..........  My  soul 

doth  magnify  the  Lord, 


126  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

47:  And  my  spirit  hath  re- 
joiced in  God  my  Saviour 

he,  or  she,  will  need  no  further  explanation  as  to  why  the 
mother  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  the  Man  who  was  to  evolute  the 
World,  should  be  called  "Mary."  For  the  very  first  two  sym- 
bols themselves,  "M"  Acceptation  (verse  46),  and  "A"  At- 
traction^ Rejoicing,  tell  the  story  in  the  beginning,  as  do  the 
following  integers  sequentially. 

The  purport  of  the  symbolism  of  Egyptian  Masonry  be- 
came wholly  lost  what  time  the  Star  of  Light  was  removed 
from  its  polarity,  and  the  Northern  Transept  of  the  World 
went  dark.  A  pantheism  of  animal-headed  gods  sprang  up  to 
replace  it,  and  the  same  condition  of  affairs  arose  as  would 
manifest  itself  should  we  suddenly  take  to  worshiping  the 
symbols  of  the  Alphabet  rather  than  the  Word  (God)  which 
they  but  express  in  divers  expressions  to  us.  This  attempted 
anthropomorphization  of  Word,  hitherto  consummated  in 
darkness,  is  the  Sin  of  the  Ages,  and  has  resulted  in  the  wages 
of  sin  for  all  of  us,  Death.  Ra,  the  All-Father,  and  Osiris,  his 
generic  son,  wore  symbolically  the  heads  of  Hawks  in  token  of 
the  masterful  flight  of  this  bird,  of  gentleness,  and  of  the  Line 
of  Beauty.  Not  until  after  the  pantheology  of  Ra,  Osiris,  and 
Isis,  did  Isis  assume  the  Crescent  Moon  of  Evening,  announ- 
cing that  she  was  Eve,  the  Hour  of  Darkness,  as  testified  by 
the  ornament  on  her  forehead. 

But  the  Book  of  the  Dead  represents  these  children  of  God, 
too,  as  in  human  guise.  Ra  (Ray)  is  the  name  of  Light,  the 
All-Seeing  Eye.  His  Son  is  O's-Eye-O'er-S,  the  Serpent  sym- 
bol, and  Osiris  wore  the  Serpent  about  his  forehead  in  token 
of  his  intellectual  mastery  over  the  serpent.  Eye's-S  (Isis), 
Sight's  Line  of  Grace,  bore  the  Flower  of  Egypt,  the  Lotus,in 
her  hand.  In-F-Thee-S, — the  Veiled  Lady  Nepthys, — is  only 
shown  on  the  left  hand  of  Isis,  her  sister.  Really,  it  is  beauti- 
ful. O's  (Mind's)  Eye-O'er-S,— Mind's  Eye  (Sight)  over- 


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breathes,  or  breathes  outwardly;  Eye's  S, — Eyes  In-turned, 
or  inspired  Sight,  which  is  Insight;  and  In-F-Thee-S,  in- Word, 
or  inward,  Thou  breathest,  Nepthys,  .  .  .  the  three  breaths 
of  the  Great  Serpent,  the  Great  One. 

In  the  hand  of  Osiris  is  always  the  figure  of  the  fetragram. 


the  Square  and  the  Compass,  the  Cross  and  the  Crown. 

Thus,  in  recognition  of  his  mission,  holds  Osiris,  the  son  of 
Light,  the  measure  of  Heaven  and  Earth  in  his  hand, — the 
fetragram,  or  Key. 

What  is  the  mission  of  Osiris  ? 

O — COMPREHENSION,  INCLUSION     22  4 

s — INSPIRIT-ATION                           27  9 

i — EGO,  INDIVIDUALITY                  14  5 
r — PREPARATION,  EXCISION  (the 

surgeon)                                   26  8 

u — PRESENCE,  DEDICATION             30  3 

i — INDIVIDUALITY  (Eye)                 14  5 

s — INSPIRIT-ATION                           27  9 


1 60        43 

,  IO+7     3+7 
Tuition  @         @  Service 

17+10 


TRANSITION 

Osiris,  by  virtue  of  the  Tetragram  figure  in  his  hand,  an- 
nounces himself  as  master  of  the  Transit.  In  his  name  there 
are  7  integers,  and  the  female  of  both  Tetragramatic  expres- 
sions of  him  are  7.  The  Grand  Ultimate  of  his  name  is  also  7. 
In  the  Holy  Bible  the  son  of  Word  is  known  as  the  son  of  a 
carpenter.  A  carpenter  works  with  a  T-square  and  Compass. 


128  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Revelation,  nth  Chapter: 

i :  And  there  was  given  me  a 
reed  like  unto  a  rod:  and 
the  angel  stood,  saying,  Rise, 
and  measure  the  temple  of  God, 
and  the  altar,  and  them  that 
worship  therein. 

It  is  said  that  Truth  is  stranger  than  fiction.  As  a  matter  of 
fact  who  is  to  say  which  is  Truth,  and  which  is  fiction,  as  we 
conceive  such?  For  what  we  call  Truth  is  established  and  per- 
ceptible fact  only,  whereas  fiction  is  the  fact  of  Consciousness, 
and  Consciousness  is  the  awaredness  of  Truth.  The  presump- 
tion that  what  is  written  of  a  material  world  must  be  real, 
just  as  what  is  written  of  an  immaterial  world  must  be  un- 
real^ is  purely  the  reversal  of  fact  by  the  presumption  of  the 
mortal.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  all  the  so-called  Truths  of  the 
material  world  prove  in  the  last  analysis  to  be  but  inverted, 
or  imaged,  imaginings  of  the  /w-material  world,  and  the 
things  that  we  can  taste,  touch,  feel,  smell,  and  with  the 
mortal  eye  perceive,  but  mutative  forms  without  substance. 

The  predecessor  of  the  moving  picture  was  a  little  booklet 
containing  a  number  of  poses  of  pugilists,  dancers,  or  actors, 
which  when  turned  swiftly  leaf  by  leaf  through  the  fingers  of 
the  hand  produced  the  effect  of  a  continuous  moving-picture. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  exactly  that  process  is  what  is  accom- 
plished by  the  physical  eye,  whereby  are  constructed  the 
myriad  forms  of  what  we  call  sight.  These  forms  become  held 
in  a  state  of  tension,  even  as  the  picture  is  held  on  the  screen 
of  the  "movies,"  until  such  assuming  apparent  substance  seem 
to  us  real. 

When  Bunyan  wrote  the  Pilgrim's  Progress,  he  chose 
the  language  of  Fiction  in  its  most  obvious  sense, — Allegory, 
—wherewith  to  present  his  subject.  Both  before  and  after 
Bunyan,  even  to  this  very  day,  that  method  of  presentation 


THE  GREAT  ONE  129 

of  Truth  is  observed.  It  has  many  advantages  over  the  cold, 
straight  method  of  direct  presentation,  as  it  both  affords 
scope  for  rhythm  of  expression,  and  by  its  very  allegoric 
phraseology  serves  to  impress  its  facts  deeper  on  the  memory 
of  listener  or  reader.  Do  the  daily  happenings  about  the 
household,  or  fairy  stories,  most  impress  the  child?  And,  in 
later  years,  which  does  the  matured  mind  retain?  A  good 
story  is  always  a  good  story,  but  to  become  an  impressive 
story  it  must  be  clothed  in  appealing  language. 

In  that  Book  called  the  Holy  Bible  we  become  at  once 
aware  of  the  use  of  language  such  as  we  can  not  in  speech 
equal.  To  the  scholar  and  classicist,  be  he  in  agreement  with 
the  contents  of  Holy  Bible,  or  not,  it  affords  the  pleasure  in 
words  that  a  rare  gem  does  to  the  connoisseur  of  such.  It  has 
inspired  more  happiness,  strife,  perplexity,  agnosticism, 
despair,  and  martyrdom,  than  all  the  books  of  all  the  world 
combined.  Its  sale  ever  steadily  increases.  Simply  as  a  book 
of  a  collection  of  stories,  it  is  the  father  of  all  known  literature 
ancient,  mediaeval,  and  modern.  Write  as  you  will,  however 
originally,  and  only  the  fact  that  there  is  no  copyright  on  the 
Bible,  that  it  is  of  "no  private  interpretation,"  saves  you 
from  the  embarrassment  of  the  commission  of  plagiarism. 

Charles  W.  Eliot,  sometime  President  of  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, once  quietly  observed  that  it  was  time  we  got  away 
from  the  tyranny  of  the  Bible.  The  first  five  books  of  this 
Book  of  books,  we  are  led  to  suppose,  or  have  led  ourselves 
to  suppose,  were  written  by  a  mortal  called  Moses.  In  in- 
fancy, we  are  apparently  instructed,  Moses,  who  was  a 
Hebrew,  was  recovered  from  waifdom  or  possible  death 
from  among  the  <£#//rushes  of  a  stream  by  a  daughter  of  the 
then  reigning  King  of  Egypt.  This  august  lady,  so  Scripture 
informs  us,  had  her  protege  brought  up  as  a  Prince  of  the 
Royal  House  of  Egypt.  It  is  to  be  remembered  that  the  Royal 
House  of  Egypt  was  most  distinctly  royal  in  its  every  aspect, 


1 30  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

preserving  a  blood-hereditary  dynasty  that  has  defied  repe- 
tition; for  brother  and  sister  united  in  wedlock  to  conserve 
the  royalty  of  such  intact.  The  first  inconsistency  of  this 
story,  concerning  the  introduction  of  Moses  into  membership 
in  such  family,  as  a  purely  material  fact  becomes  at  once  an 
obstacle  to  credulity. 

Secondly,  these  Hebrews,  or  Israelites,  of  whom  was  Moses 
a  child  by  birth,  had  been  held  in  captivity  for  some  little 
time;  and  as  the  policy  of  Egypt  appeared  to  be  an  utter 
national  disintegration  of  the  Hebrews,  it  is  only  logical  to 
assume  that  they  proceeded  to  carry  out  such  disintegration 
by  the  only  means  known  to  nations  to  accomplish  such,  by 
a  disintegration  and  paralyzation  of  the  mother  tongue. 

In  any  case,  it  seems  Moses  was  brought  up  from  earliest 
infancy  far  from  the  people  of  his  speech,  as  a  Prince  of  the 
then  Reigning  House  of  Egypt,  and  as  such,  of  course,  was 
versed  in  what  of  the  Great  Pyramidal  lore  was  part  of  the 
necessary  up-bringing  of  every  Egyptian  Royalty.  So  that,  up 
to  the  age  of  forty  years,  his  mother  tongue  must  have  been 
purely  hearsay  to  Prince  Moses. 

At  this  age  Moses,  it  appears,  had  the  misfortune  to  slay  an 
Egyptian,  practically  in  self-defense,  and  certainly  in  defense 
of  another.  The  commission  of  manslaughter  in  self-defense, 
or  to  save  life,  is  recognized  as  justifiable  even  at  this  day  in  all 
civilized  and  uncivilized  nations.  In  Egypt  it  is  a  moot  ques- 
tion whether  slaughter,  by  a  Royalty,  would  be  considered 
an  offense.  Yet  Moses,  a  Prince  of  the  Reigning  House,  and 
therefore  exempt  from  the  common  law,  by  the  accidental 
killing  of  a  man  virtually  in  self-defense,  is  forced  to  flee  for 
his  life  like  a  common  felon.  Yet  apparently  was  his  act  of  so 
little  judicial  moment,  that  at  no  great  time  thereafter  he 
could  walk  boldly  and  unmolested  into  the  very  presence  of 
the  Pharaoh  himself,  and  that  without  any  further  reference 
to  the  causes  of  his  so  abruptly  leaving  the  shelter  of  his 


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adopted  father,  the  King  of  Egypt.  Oddly,  too,  when  Moses 
presents  himself  at  this  court  where  for  forty  years  of  his  life 
he  must  have  been  a  personage  of  very  great  distinction,  it  is 
as  an  utter  stranger  without  credentials. 

But,  putting  aside  these  manifest  material  inconsistencies, 
—or  inconsistencies  of  material  facts, — it  is  palpably  obvious 
that  if  we  are  to  read  the  story  of  Moses,  even  as  the  story  of 
Samson,  of  Job,  of  Solomon,  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  of  Saul, 
and  the  weird  imagery  of  Isaiah,  and  the  hauntingly  beauti- 
ful descriptions  of  John  in  Revelation,  we  must  read  such  as 
they  were  written,  as  scripture,  in  the  Spirit,  as  psychologic 
accounts  of  psychologic  happenings,  and  not  as  the  stories  of 
material  flesh  and  blood  men.  John  says  he  wrote  Revelation 
in  the  Spirit.  This  is  not  to  say  that  these  men  had  no  earthly 
conceptions,  no  material  presentations;  but  that  the  Biblical 
accounts  of  the  happenings,  whereof  they  were  historical  part, 
are  psychological,  or  Spiritual,  and  that  with  such  solely  is 
Scripture  concerned. 

This  writing  is  concerned  solely  with  the  realm  of  Word, 
which  is  the  realm  of  the  real,  or  Spiritual.  As  such  it  knows 
all  men  to  be  the  Sons  of  God,  even  as  all  women  are  the 
Daughters  of  God,  both  in  utter  equality.  No  other  interpre- 
tation will  satisfy  either  this  offering  or  Scripture.  Those 
things  that  are  of  the  earth  are  Caesar's;  the  things  of  God 
(Word)  are  all  that  are  accounted  herein.  Hence  the  material 
presentations  of  Word, — can  there  be  said  to  be  such, — of  the 
mortal  Moses,  Solomon,  Jesus, — were  there  such, — are  not 
included  in  this  offering. 

Moses,  then,  we  are  informed, — to  continue  his  story, — 
was  removed  from  the  environs  and  tongue  of  his  birth  until 
approaching  what  we  term  early  middle  life;  yet  despite  this 
handicap,  he  was  able,  it  appears,  with  perfect  facility  and 
mastery  to  begin,  almost  immediately,  and  to  complete,  in 
the  Hebrew  tongue,  about  as  large  and  copious  a  magnum  opus 


132  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

as  was  ever  contemplated  by  man, — and  on  such  a  subject! 

In  the  preface  to  what  we  term  the  standard,  or  Prince 
James,  edition  of  the  Holy  Bible,  we  are  informed  on  its  title 
page  that  it  is  translated  out  of  the  original  tongues,  and  in  its 
preface  a  dedication  is  made  by  these  "translators"  to  the 
reigning  monarch  who  we  believe  ordered  such  translation. 
This  monarch  is  addressed  as  "the  Most  High  and  Mighty 
Prince  James  [no  comma  after  James,  so  that  we  gather  he 
was  not  "the  most  high  and  mighty  Prince,  James,"  but 
"Prince  James"],  by  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Great 
Britain,  France,  and  Ireland." 

It  is  a  pity  that  the  numeral  of  this  James'  Kingship  was 
omitted,  but  even  with  such  omission  it  is  at  once  obvious 
that  no  Prince  James,  or  King  James,  was  monarch  of  Great 
Britain,  nor  Prince  of  the  same,  for  the  very  patent  reason 
that  the  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  was  not  declared,  ratified, 
or  formed  by  the  four  lesser  Kingdoms  until  (circa  1707) 
after  the  last  of  the  Scotch  and  English  Kings,  and  Princes, 
James  were  laid  to  rest. 

This  King,  or  Prince,  James  was  also,  we  are  informed, 
King  of  France.  Here  history  is  challenged.  If  any  Prince 
James,  or  King  James,  of  England  was  also  a  King  of  France, 
— and  he  must  have  been  a  Prince  James,  or  King  James  of 
France,  or  else  held  the  French  throne  under  an  alias,— 
neither  the  Patents  Royal  of  England  nor  France,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  histories  of  either  country,  record  such  fact. 

Thirdly,  if  Prince  James,  to  give  him  his  Biblical  title,  es- 
tablished a  sovereignty  over  Ireland  at  this  date,  neither 
English  nor  Irish  will  admit  such;  unless  possibly  he  was  one 
of  the  James  succeeding  Oliver  Cromwell,  and  even  then  his 
Irish  sovereignty  is  not  historically  established.  So  we  must 
assume  this  dedication  to  Prince  James, — for  they  do  not 
address  him  as  King, — of  these  various  countries,  to  have 
been  an  invention  of  the  "translators,"  for  certainly  it  is  not 


THE  GREAT  ONE  133 

supposable  that  men  of  such  erudition  could  be  so  histori- 
cally inaccurate  about  the  reigning  King  of  their  own  day  and 
country. 

Moreover,  it  seems  odd  that  no  slightest  account  of  the 
personalities  of  these  same  "translators"  is  preserved  to  us. 
A  work  of  this  description  is  a  weighty  matter.  It  is  easy  to 
find  the  names  of  the  authors  of  the  various  articles  in  the 
Encyclopaedia  Britannica  of  any  date,  for  instance;  and  al- 
though occasional  articles,  stories,  or  poems,  may  be  anony- 
mous, or  attributed,  here  and  there  in  literature,  there  is  not 
the  record  of  any  work  of  importance  remaining  unknown 
either  as  to  its  authorship,  or  to  its  translations,  if  such  occur. 
If  the  scholars, — and  they  must  have  been  very  learned,  pro- 
found, and  famous  ones, — who  "translated"  the  Bible  out  of 
the  original  tongues,  chose  to  remain  utterly  unknown,  there 
is  certainly  nothing  in  their  translations  to  show  why  such 
modesty  should  have  become  necessary,  for  language,  spelling, 
and  style  of  diction  are  such  as  were  not  in  vogue  during  the 
reign  of  any  James  known  to  history,  nor  in  fact  in  vogue 
during  the  times  of  any  other  known  monarch. 

Further,  why  in  this  Preface  do  all  of  the  words  that  could 
serve  to  localize  it  occur  always,  and  only,  in  italics?  That 
has  never  been  the  custom  in  any  document  written  in  any 
language  and  in  any  time.  England,  English  tongue,  Occident, 
etc.,  all  occur  in  this  guise.  Can  it  be  that  the  same  method  of 
"rejection"  as  that  giving  us  the  number  of  the  Beast,  is 
again  applied  to  tell  us  what  is  really  so  obvious? 

Hebrew  is  not,  and  never  has  been,  a  universal  language. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  has  never  been  as  universally  popular 
as  is  present-day  Chinese,  for  instance;  so  why  the  God  of  all 
mankind,  who  established  Himself  as  Word,  should  pick  out 
a  formless,  strictly  local,  unalphabetic  tongue  to  express 
Himself  in,  is  utterly  un-obvious.  And  how  He  could  express 
creation  in  that  tongue  is  as  impalpable  as  how,  in  such  case, 


i34  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

we  obtained  the  letters  of  our  alphabet.  If  you  admit  that 
this  language  we,  calling  ourselves  English-speaking,  com- 
municate in  is  the  Original  Tongue,  when  all  the  earth  was  of 
one  language  and  of  one  speech,  then  you  have  a  definite  and 
logical  reason  for  the  offshoot  alphabets  of  Hebrew,  Greek, 
Persian,  Chinese,  and  all  other  attempts  to  express  man  sym- 
bolically. But  if  you  maintain  that  Hebrew  was  the  original 
tongue  of  the  Word,  the  one  language  and  one  speech  of  the 
whole  earth,  then  you  have  to  alter  history  and  account  for 
the  English  alphabet  and  the  English  language.  And,  since 
the  War  of  Words,  just  completed,  wherein  the  true  alphabet 
nations  were  opposed  to  the  unalphabetic  nations,  this  tongue 
and  language  are  becoming  Universal  with  increasing  ra- 
pidity. 

"  Come,  let  us  reason  together."  In  what  language,  other 
than  English  (as  we  call  it),  is  to  be  found  the  word  Bible? 
The  names  Genesis,  Exodus,  Leviticus,  Deuteronomy?  Num- 
bers, of  course,  might  be  a  translation  of  the  equivalent 
Hebrew  word  for  such;  but  no  language  in  the  world  will  dis- 
close the  other  quoted  four  names,  saving  that  of  the  BOOK 
whose  lesser  books  they  title.  The  word  Pyramid?  I'etragram? 
In  the  New  Testament,  we  read  of  Stephen,  Philip,  John, 
James,  and  Peter,  as  followers  of  Jesus.  Since  when  were  such 
names  applied  to  Jews  ?  Yet  these  men  were  all  Jews,  we  are 
told, — Jews  of  Jews,  born,  circumcised,  reared,  and  taught, 
in  strictest  accordance  with  rigorous  rabbinical  law.  Also,  if 
any  Jew  before  or  after  the  Nazarene  bore  the  name  of  Jesus, 
both  religious  and  secular  scripture  have  failed  to  reveal  such. 
Instead,  the  name  seems  to  have  since  deteriorated  mostly  as 
the  given  name  of  Spanish  muleteers  and  Mexican  peons 
solely.  But,  finally,  if  you  stop  to  consider,  of  what  Hebraic, 
or  other  language,  name  is  God  a  translation?  For  it  cer- 
tainly can  not  be  claimed  as  a  translation  of  the  name  Jehova, 
because  that  name  is  used  constantly  in  the  "translated"  Old 


THE  GREAT  ONE  135 

Testament,  neither  of  Jab  nor  Twab.  And,  lastly,  who  ever 
heard  of  translating  proper  names,  not  to  mention  such  a 
proper  name  as  that  of  the  Almighty  Father? 

The  title  page  of  the  New  Testament  informs  us  that  it  was 
"Translated  out  of  the  Original  Greek,"  (not  "from  the 
Greek,"  please  observe).  What  was  the  original  Greek  when 
all  the  earth  was  of  one  language  and  one  speech?  At  the  time 
that  Jesus  is  accredited  with  walking  this  earth,  Greek, 
nationally  virtually  dead,  had  become  only  the  scholarly,  if 
not  the  court,  language  of  the  known  world.  As  such  it  seems 
to  have  enjoyed  somewhat  the  same  position  that  has  French 
until  recently.  But  although  the  man  of  culture  is  supposed  to 
possess  some  familiarity  with  the  French  language,  it  is  not 
expected  as  a  means  of  communication  from  the  lips  of,  say, 
Italian,  Portuguese,  or  Irish  laborers.  One  should  not  be, 
but  nevertheless  would  be,  astonished  to  hear  even  an  Ameri- 
can workingman  conversing  with  a  fellow  laborer  in  letters 
proclaiming  such  niceties  of  speech  as  those  of  Racine,  or  Ros- 
trand.  And  yet  this  is  exactly  what  Biblical  language,  if  trans- 
lated from  the  Greek,  would  proclaim  the  fishermen  and 
laborers  who  followed  Jesus  capable  of,  for  the  language  of 
the  grave  and  cultured  scholar  was  apparently  their  daily, 
even  personal,  medium  of  intercommunication.  But  in  any 
case  they  were  not  Greeks,  and  probably  from  their  environ- 
ment, on  the  shores  of  a  provincial  lake,  and  their  stations  in 
life,  had  never  come  into  close  contact  with  any  of  that  na- 
tion; and  if  there  is  a  more  difficult  mode  of  expression  than 
Greek  to  the  one  of  another  speech,  no  schoolboy  who  has 
been  stopped  from  playhours  to  master  the  irregular  verbs 
and  neuter  gender  of  that  language  will  admit  such  possibility. 

In  Isaiah  19:18,  quoted  at  the  beginning  of  this  offering, 
we  are  told  that  five  cities  in  the  day  of  the  Lord  shall  speak 
the  language  of  Canaan.  What  was  the  language  of  Canaan, 
—Greek? 


136  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Finally  if  Greek  and  Hebrew  were  the  inspired  languages 
God  must  now  be  speechless. 

But  as  a  matter  of  Biblical  fact,  there  is  neither  English, 
French,  Greek,  Hindustani,  Persian,  Choctaw,  nor  any  other 
one-tongue  as  a  distinct  expression,  for  all  languages  and 
tongues  unite  correlatively,  and  their  unition  is  nearer  that 
which  we  call  English  than  any  other  form  of  known  speech. 
God  (Word)  is  Universal,  not  racial  nor  national. 

Ense  libertatem  petit  inimico  tyrannis.  As  Dr.  Eliot  said,  it 
is  time  we  got  away  from  the  tyranny  of  the  Bible;  time  that 
we  entered  into  the  fullness  of  our  inheritance  as  the  sons  of 
God,  and  that  inheritance  we  are  told  is  the  one  speech  and 
one  tongue  of  Universal  Brotherhood  and  Sonship.  The 
sword  of  liberty  makes  itself  an  enemy  of  tyranny.  Out  of  the 
mouth  of  the  "  one  clothed  like  unto  the  Son  of  man,"  says  the 
1 6th  verse  of  the  ist  chapter  of  Revelation,  "went  a  sharp 
two-edged  sword."  This  sword  is  "rightly  dividing,"  and  it 
is  the  enemy  of  tyranny.  Mark  how  the  use  of  the  fetragram 
by  Jesus  is  referred  to  in  the  Bible  itself. 

The  scribes  and  the  Pharisees,  we  are  told,  had  brought 
before  Him  a  woman  taken  in  adultery.  Explaining  this  fact 
to  Jesus,  they  sought  opportunity  by  the  manner  in  which 
they  put  their  questions  to  trap  Him  into  some  expression 
contrary  to  their  rabbinical  law. 

St.  John,  8th  Chapter: 

6:  ...  But  Jesus  stooped 
down,  and  with  his  finger 
wrote  on  the  ground,  as 
though  he  heard  them  not. 

Jesus  as  the  skilled  workman  was  supposed  to  be  the  one 
who  could  "rightly  divide  the  word  of  Truth."  Also,  He  was 
the  son  of  a  carpenter,  brought  up  at  least,  partly,  at  His 
father's  trade,  hence  versed  in  the  use  of  square  and  compass. 
If  not  "rightly  dividing  the  word  of  Truth"  at  such  time, 


THE  GREAT  ONE  137 

are  we  to  suppose  that  He  was  idly  scratching  words  of 
the  sort  that  one  usually  writes  on  the  ground  with  one's 
finger,  or  the  point  of  a  stick?  The  ground  is  not  a  field  in 
which  to  indulge  in  lengthy  scripture  with  the  point  of  one's 
finger,  nor  suitable  for  literary  passages. 

If,  then,  Jesus  at  such  a  time,  and  knowing  that  He  was 
being  tempted  into  a  trap,  "stooped  down  and  with  his 
finger  wrote  on  the  ground/'  it  is  logical  only  to  assume  that 
He  was  writing  something  pertinent  to  the  moment,  and 
something  the  whole  import  of  which  He  could  not  carry  in 
memory  to  the  full  without  the  momentary  assistance  of 
written  figures.  In  other  words,  if  He  was  not  Fetragramming 
the  situation  for  a  suitable  reply, — He,  the  master  of  the  T'et- 
ragram, — then  the  only  remaining  assumption  is  that  He 
must  have  been  writing  merely  anything  to  obviate  the 
necessity  of  a  reply. 

And  yet  He  did  answer,  and  at  once;  that  is,  as  soon  as  He 
had  "lifted  himself  up"  from  what  He  was  writing  on  the 
ground.  So  remains  but  the  conclusion  that  the  Master  was 
using  the  weapon  of  mastery  to  "rightly  divide  the  word  of 
Truth,"  and  procure  a  balanced  reply,  which  in  all  effect  He 
gave  His  "tempters." 

This  work  has  sought  to  avoid  the  appearance  of  "preach- 
ing," or  "  teaching,"  asking  rather  that  the  reader  collaborate 
with  the  author  in  the  presentation  of  what  is  herein  written 
in  Brotherhood,  which  is  equality  of  sonship.  But  it  is  felt  that 
here  it  is  only  just  to  the  purport  of  this  writing  to  point  out 
how  much  can  be  accomplished,  and  how  much  failure  saved, 
by  following  out  just  Jesus'  method  of  "rightly  dividing  the 
Word  of  Truth"  in  crisis.  It  is  balance  in  business  that  pro- 
motes success,  and  the  Tetragram  was  devised  for  balancing 
or  "rightly  dividing"  all  conditions  of  our  Father's  business. 
Jesus  went  about  His  Father's  business.  Manipulating  the 
Stock  Exchange,  blacking  boots,  managing  the  affairs  of  a 


138  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

bank,  sweeping  the  streets,  measuring  out  groceries,  and  any 
other  of  the  legitimate  activities  of  man  are,  when  carried  on 
in  balance,  or  "rightly  divided,"  our  Father's  business.  To  be 
about  such  successfully,  the  word  of  Truth,  which  is  all  that 
sustains  the  whole  system,  from  Wall  Street  to  the  running 
of  the  corner  grocery,  must  be  in  balanced  ledgers,  "rightly 
divided,"  honestly  apportioned.  Anything  other,  history  of 
both  business  and  nation  has,  over  and  over,  shown  but  to  be 
productive  of  failure.  And  the  balanced  methods  contributory 
to  business  success  are  just  as  necessary  to  our  every  act  of 
private,  personal  life. 

Says  a  sundial  in  a  quiet,  old,  lichen  and  ivy  grown  church- 
yard in  England, 

Horas  non  numero  nisi  serenas. 
"I  count  only  those  hours  that  are  serene." 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS,  WHICH 
IS  SOLOMON'S 


A  HAS  BEEN  said  before,  it  is  not  the  purpose  of  this 
work  to  become  inconoclastic  of  established  order, 
but  in   the  presentation   of  the  Word,   as   offered 
herein,  it  becomes  necessary  at  times  to  point  out  obviously 
intentional  discrepancies  in  Scriptural  text,  as  well  as  obvious 
intents  in  such  discrepancies.  Thus,  in  the  Gospel  according 
to  St.  Matthew,  chapter  i,  verse  i,  we  read: 

The  book  of  the  generation 
of  Jesus  Christ,  the  son  of 
David,  the  son  of  Abraham. 

Then  follow  for  16  verses  an  account,  apparently,  not  of  the 
generation^  or  work,  of  Jesus  Christ,  but  of  His  ancestry.  Are 
generation  and  genealogy  the  same?  Or,  is  it  possible  that  the 
"translators,"  those  silent  ones,  whose  diction  has  been 
the  despairing  admiration  of  the  man  of  letters  throughout  the 
ages,  knew  not  the  difference  between  the  words  generation 
and  genealogy?  Is  there  no  significance  that  the  "Son  of 
David"  was  also  the  builder  of  the  Temple,  and  of  Gezer, 
constructing  the  former  in  proportion  so  that  with  micro- 
scopic accuracy  it  should  counterpart  the  Great  Pyramid? 
Building  this  Temple,  too,  without  the  aid  of  axe  or  hammer. 
The  Son  of  David,  in  the  Holy  Bible,  is  called  Solomon.  Solo- 
mon builded  a  Temple  whose  measurements  correspond  abso- 
lutely with  the  Chamber  of  the  King  in  the  Great  Pyramid. 
In  Revelation  the  King  is  identified  as  the  Christ. 

Solomon  is  repeatedly  called  the  wisest  of  all  men.  In  the 
1 2th  verse  of  the  ist  chapter  of  II  Chronicles,  God  Himself, 
addressing  Solomon,  says: 

Wisdom  and  knowledge  is 
granted  unto  thee;  and  I  will 
give  thee  riches,  and  wealth, 
and  honour,  such  as  none  of 


i42  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

the  kings  have  had  that  have 
been  before  thee,  neither  shall 
there  any  after  thee  have  the 
like. 

As  the  Son  of  man,  Jesus,  according  to  His  genealogy,  suc- 
ceeded Solomon  by  several  centuries,  it  is  only  to  be  assumed 
according  to  this  direct  arrangement  recorded  by  God  Him- 
self that  Jesus  could  not  hope  to  equal  Solomon  in  either  wis- 
dom or  knowledge.  Here  we  arrive  at  an  impasse.  The  only 
solution  seems  by  acknowledgment  that  the  Son  of  David  was 
the  Son  of  David;  that  the  Biblical  Jesus  and  the  Biblical  Solo- 
mon were  one  and  the  same.  What  further  light  thereon  in 
Holy  Bible? 

THE  SONG  OF  SOLOMON. 

Caption  to  Chapter  i. 

/,  The  church 's  love  unto  Christ.  8y  Christ  directeth  her  to  the 
shepherds'  tents:  12,  The  church  and  Christ  congratulate  one 
another. 

The  first  verse  to  this  chapter,  whereof  the  contents  state  it 
to  be  entirely  concerning  Christ  and  His  church,  says  it  is 


ERRATUM 

Solomon  \>  ~ 

o     TV/T  rage  142.  CHURCH 

to  St.  Mai 

Read 

c — CONSIDERATION  7  7 

i    / 

h — CONVENTION  13  4 

e — ATTENUATION  10  10 

u — PRESENCE,  DEDICATION  30  3 

r — PREPARATION  26  8 

c — CONSIDERATION  7  7 

h — CONVENTION  13  4 


1  06  43 

6+7         3+7 

@  ® 

13  +  10 


3,  A  Tri-angulation,  which  is  Unity,  or  Oneness. 
And  Unity  is  Life. 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  143 

h  (silent) — CONVENTION  13  4 


108  45 

8+9         5+9 


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Life,  which  is  not  Hate,  but  Love. 
The  cburcb  was,  then,  Christ's  Lifey  or  Love. 

CAPTION  TO  CHAPTER  2. 

7,  The  mutual  love  of  Christ  and  bis  cburcb.  //,  Christ's 
care  of  the  church. 

Even  as  in  chapter  i,  this  whole  chapter  concerns  appar- 
ently the  love  song  of  a  man  for  a  woman,  and  of  a  woman  for 
a  man,  yet  in  such  perfect  hermaphroditism  of  expression 
that  it  is  often  almost  impossible  to  distinguish  the  differences 
in  the  two  speakers  or  singers. 

Through  8  chapters  in  all  does  this  Song  of  Songs  run,  and 
each  chapter  heading  tells  succinctly  that  it  describes  only 
the  love  passages  between  Christ  and  His  church,  yet  in  the 
text  of  this  Song  of  Songs  not  one  mention  is  made  of  either 
by  direct  or  indirect  reference,  and  the  supposition  in  such 
text  is  indicated  to  be  that  of  a  love  song  of  Solomon's,  at 
what  time  that  wisest  of  monarchs  answered  the  impulse  of 
his  heart.  Certainly  it  is  a  song  of  a  male  to  a  female,  and  a 
female  to  a  male,  in  most  impassioned  and  unintelligible  lan- 
guage. Oddly,  too,  neither  from  pulpit,  platform,  chancel,  nor 
desk,  is  any  reference  ever  made  to  this  divine  "Song  of 
Songs. "  It  is  avoided  as  though  it  were  the  incantation  of  the 
Devil. 

But,  not  only  is  it  divine  in  rhythm,  but  designed  even  as 
the  T^etragram  to  "rightly  divide  the  word  of  Truth."  Its 
hermaphroditism  is  perfect.  Its  poesy  and  metre  are  un- 


144  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

equaled.  For  its  sentiment,  turn,  for  instance,  to  chapter  8, 

verse  8: 

We  have  a  little  sister, 
and  she  hath  no  breasts; 
what  shall  we  do  for  our  sister 
in  the  day  when  she  shall  be 
spoken  for? 

The  two  singing  are  supposedly  utterly  enwrapt  in  the  joy 
of  their  own  loves, — yet  they  pause  to  think  of  the  little  de- 
formed sister.  Is  there  any  greater  testimony  to  Love  itself 
than  that?  "Greater  love  hath  no  man  than  this,  that  he  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  friend. " 

Unequaled  in  poesy  and  beauty  of  sentiment,  the  Song  of 
Solomon  serves  yet  a  greater  purpose,  for  it  confirms  in  metre 
the  Consciousness  States  of  the  fetragram.  The  number  of 
rhythmic  impacts  of  each  verse,  'Tetragramed,  will  give  the 
Consciousness  State  which  the  numeral  of  each  verse  sug- 
gests. 

The  Holy  Bible  was  written  by  masters,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Master.  No  mistakes  are  possible  to  such.  This 
rhythmic  impact,  so  obvious  in  the  Song  of  Solomon  because 
of  its  perfect  poetry,  is  carried  out  throughout  the  whole  of 
both  Testaments,  from  Genesis  to  Revelation.  Thus,  the 
memory  of  such  verses,  because  of  the  suggestion  contained 
in  the  Consciousness  States  of  such,  are  retained,  when  the 
mere  words  would  be  forgotten;  so  that,  even  though  we  have 
neglected  to  open  the  Bible  since  the  school  days  of  child- 
hood, verse  after  verse  from  the  oldest,  and  only,  Psychology 
in  the  World  comes  tumbling  into  place  when  wanted;  and  to 
lips,  utterly  unframed  to  the  repetition  of  Scriptural  text, 
come  at  odd  moments  to  confirm  story,  adorn  tale,  or  point 
moral,  scraps  of  quotations  from  the  Holy  Bible,  as  though 
such  were  matter  of  every-day  phraseology. 

Finally,  referring  again  to  the  original  language  of  the 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  145 

Holy  Bible,  why  the  constant  italics  in  its  various  passages? 
It  is  possible,  of  course,  that  such  might  have  been  inserted  as 
single  words,  or  as  a  verb,  for  instance,  by  the  "  translators  "  to 
clarify  the  text;  but  when  it  comes  to  whole  added  italicized 
lines,  obviously  not  part  of  any  of  the  original,  one  logically 
inquires  why  the  liberty? 

Take,  for  instance,  that  verse  (6)  from  the  8th  chapter  of 
the  Gospel  according  to  St.  John,  before  quoted, 

But  Jesus  stooped 
down,  and  with  his  finger 
wrote  on  the  ground,  as 
though  he  heard  them  not. 

The  first  italics,  his,  might  have  been  inserted  by  the  "  trans- 
lators" to  clarify  the  act,  although  it  is  difficult  to  conceive 
how  He  could  write  with  another's  finger,  but  are  we  to  as- 
sume that  these  "translators"  would  take  the  liberty  of 
adding  a  whole  sentence  of  six  words,  not  needful  to  the  un- 
italicized  text,  of  their  own  volition  ?  Such  presumption  would 
not  be  tolerated  in  the  translation  of  a  modern  novel.  We  had 
best  close  the  Holy  Bible  here  and  now,  for  apparently  we 
are  not  reading  the  inspired  Word  of  Truth,  but  the  con- 
ception of  such  by  a  number  of  unauthentic,  unknown 
"translators." 

Or, 

St.  Matthew,  1st  Chapter: 

6:  And  Jesse  begat  David  the 
king;  and  David  the  king  be- 
gat Solomon  of  her  that  had 
been  the  wife  of  Urias. 

Or, 

I  Chronicles,  28th  Chapter: 

21 :  And,  behold,  the  courses 
of  the  priests  and  the  Levites, 
even  they  shall  be  with  thee 


146  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

for  all  the  service  of  the  house 
of  God: 

And  these  courses,  to  be  with  us  even,  are  10-10,  male  and  fe- 
male as  man.  Or, 

Solomon's  Song,  fth  Chapter: 

1:  Thy  teeth  are  like  a  flock 

of  sheep  that  are  even  shorn,  .... 

That  is  to  say,  by  what  right  would  any  translator  of  any 
text  add  such  a  line  as  in  the  above  verse,  or  any  of  the  pre- 
ceding verses  here  quoted,  more  especially  when  the  omission 
of  the  italicized  words  makes  just  as  good  sense  in  every  par- 
ticular? It  almost  seems  as  though  the  "translators"  had  at- 
tempted to  change  the  meaning  of  the  text  itself,  for  certainly 
in  the  majority  of  cases  wherein  such  italicized  words  are 
used  the  interpretation  is  vastly  different  to  what  would  be 
the  case  without  the  interpolation  of  such.  These  interpol- 
ations occur  with  greatest  frequency  throughout  the  entire 
text  of  the  Holy  Bible.  Wherefore,  it  is  obvious  that  either 
these  "translators"  took  such  liberties  with  Holy  Bible,  that 
there  is  no  slightest  dependence  to  be  placed  on  their  "transla- 
tion" of  such  as  an  expression  of  God,  or  that  such  italicized 
words  were  deliberately  introduced  in  the  original  writing 
with  purpose  aforethought.  In  this  latter  case,  obviously  no 
"translator"  is  responsible  for  the  language  and  text  of  Holy 
Bible. 

And  if  these  italicized  words  were  deliberately  introduced 
with  especial  design  ? 

Italics  are  devised  to  emphasize,  or  call  especially  to  the 
reader's  attention.  The  Pyramidal  way  of  calling  attention  to 
the  chief  corner  stone  was  to  obviously  reject  the  same,  and 
this  rejection  was  accomplished  by  putting  such  corner  stone 
where  every  visitor  to  the  Great  Pyramid  would  be  obliged  to 
pass  by  it,  and  by  very  nature  of  its  symbolism, — the 
Sphinx, — stop  and  wonder  at  its  purport  and  history,  its 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  147 

raison  d'etre.  Apply  this  same  process  to  the  italicized 
wordings  in  the  Holy  Bible,  and  with  equal  ease  the  capstone 
becomes  automatically  lifted  therein  into  place,  and  the 
swastika  of  language  opens  its  petals  of  wondrous  reveal- 
men  ts,  so  that  the  reader  will  see  and  hear  therein  the  beauti- 
ful story  of  the  male  and  the  female,  which  is  Word,  the  love 
of  Christ  for  His  church,  the  Song  of  Songs,  which  is  Solo- 
mon's. 

WORD:  We-heard;  and  to  hear  is  to  obey.  Jesus,  the 
expounder  of  Word,  said,  the  first  commandment  of 
all  is,  Hear,  O  Israel, — that  is,  Hear,  O  is  real.  The  O 
is  the  circle,  the  symbol  of  Mind.  /Ff-heard, — the 
We  is  the  male  and  female  of  Word,  likeness  and 
image,  by  which  in  Genesis  1:26-27,  God  pro- 
claimed Himself  as  Us. 

ISRAEL:  Eyes-real.  The  All-Seeing  Eye. 

BIBLE:  By-Able.  It  was  by  Able,  the  man  of  the 
second  birth,  that  the  salvation  of  mortal  man  was 
to  be  wrought.  The  Able  Bye,  or  Way,  was  taught 
by  the  Christ,  who  called  Himself  the  Way. 

PYR-AMID:  PEER  AMID,  look  in  the  center,  go  to  the 
root  of.  The  city  which,  in  Revelation,  is  lighted 
from  (amid)  within. 

TETRAGRAM:  The  symbol  of  workmanship  in  the 
"rightly  dividing  of  the  word  of  Truth."  The  Sym- 
bol of  the  Crown  and  the  Cross,  the  Circle  (Com- 
pass) and  T-Square,  the  tools  of  the  Carpenter  and 
Mason,  without  which  the  latter  has  no  Lodge. 

And  when  they  were 
come  unto  a  place  called  Gol- 
gotha, that  is  to  say,  a  place 
of  a  skull, 

St.  Matthew  27:  33  (Degree  of  Masonry) 


148  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

G  all-go  eth-o'er)  as  this  place  in  metaphorical  Bibli- 
cal Jo^W-language  is  called,  or  the  Place  of  a  Skull, 
the  Head,  wherein  the  name  of  the  Beast,  says  the 
Bible,  was  written,  and  of  the  bitterness  of  which 
the  Crucified  refused  to  drink  until  it  be  replaced 
with  His  Father's  name,  that  was  to  be  written  in 
the  foreheads  of  the  Faithful  (Revelation  14:1). 

For, 

They  gave  him  vinegar 
to  drink  mingled  with  gall: 
and  when  he  had  tasted  thereof  > 
he  would  not  drink. 
St.  Matthew  27:  34  (Masonic  Degree,  the  alphabetic  X) 

And  the  scripture  was  ful- 
filled, which  saith,  And  he 
was  numbered  with  the  trans- 
gressors. 
St.  Mark  15:28  (LOCATION-COMPLETION) 

The  Son  of  man  must  be  numbered  with  the  transgressors  at 
the  place  of  a  skull,  before  attaining  to  the  Head.  The  only 
known  method  of  numbering  Him  would  be  by  the  Tefragram. 


Behold  the  place  of  a  skull,  the  place  of  Crucifixion,  as  told 
in  Holy  Bible,  G all-go eth-o  er.  Here,  the  strength  of  head,  or 
headstrongness  which  led  to  the  first  disobedience  by  the 
woman,  is  crucified,  or  expiated  for  by  her  seed,  so  that  the 
word  of  Truth  becomes  rightly  divided,  in  balance,  the  wo- 
man regaining  her  own.  From  this  is  the  figure  of  the  'Tetra- 
gram  derived  by  means  of  which  we  count  the  number  of  the 
Beast,  which  the  Bible  says  is  wisdom,  and  by  means  of  which 
are  the  transgressors,  and  the  Son  of  man,  all  numbered, — 
even  the  hairs  of  the  head,  and  the  little  obscure  sparrow 
that  falleth, — by  means  of  which  the  little  breastless  sister  is 
considered  and  made  whole. 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  149 

Tetragraw, — T-true-gram,   or   True   measure  and 

weight  by  the  T,  (T-square). 

The  homogeneous  word  g-r-a-m,  'Tetragramed,— 

G — FRUITION,  RELEASMENT  12  3 

r — PREPARATION  26  8 

a — RE- ACTION  2  2 

m — ACCEPTATION  20  2 


60  15 

10+6        5  +  6 

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16+11 

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Transition  is  the  Way.  There  is  but  the  one  Way,  for  the 
Straight  Line  must  give  place  to  the  Line  of  Beauty,  and  the 
Line  of  Beauty  merges  at  once  into  the  O,  the  circle.  "Hear, 
O  is  real."  Thus,  by  direct  reasoning,  the  Tetragram  becomes 
T — true-circle. 

Now  to  "true"  the  circle  we  have  given  us  since  time  im- 
memorial the  figure  ~fT>  which  we  call  pi,  as  to  the  value  and 
process  of  use  of  which  there  has  been  since  the  ages  learned 
debate.  This  "  truing"  of  the  circle  is  mathematically  demon- 
strated by  the  Great  Pyramid  in  its  proportions.  So  we  have 
If",  or  T,  true-circle. 

A  second's  observance  shows  the  figure  pi  (~[f)  to  be  but 
two  "t's"  placed  close  together.  Wherefore  such  read,  of 
course,  T-T,  or  "TeT," — thus  for 

TETRAGRAM,  read  Pi  (~[j~)>  True-Circle,  or  the  True 
Square  of  the  Circle, — the  balancing  of  the  sexes, 
the  Brotherhood  of  Man  and  consequent  Father- 
hood of  God. 

This  final  revealing  comes  in  the  Book  of  Revelation.  Rev- 
elation means  revealing.  Our  word  "News,"  we  are  told,  is 


150  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

gathered  in  sequence  by  the  composition  of  the  scattered 
integers  which  tell  the  four  points  of  the  compass,  or  circle, — 
7V-orth,  E-ast,  /F-est,  £-outh, — even  as  we  are  informed  the 
sons  of  God  are  to  be  gathered  from  the  four  corners  of  the 
earth  finally.  Revelation  is  News.  The  gathering  of  the  word 
News  together  integerically  is  obviously  by  ^etragramatic 
process,  by  the  squaring  of  the  circle. 

TVorth — .East — ^outh — /Fest, — Four  distinct  words  gath- 
ered integerically  into  ONE. 

Genesis,  nth  Chapter: 

i :  And  the  whole  earth  was  of 
one  language,  and  of  one 
speech. 

Thus  says  the  Free-Mason: 

"The  Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Compass  are  not  only  styled 
the  Great  Lights  in  Masonry,  but  they  are  also  techni- 
cally called  the  furniture  of  the  Lodge:  and  .....  it  is 
held  that  there  is  no  Lodge  without  them." 

MASON:  My  Son. 

MASONRY:  My  Son  Ra  (the  Light,  or  Sun). 

The  Son  of  Ra  (Ray)  is  Osiris.  In  the  hand 
of  Osiris  is  the  Square  of  the  Circle,  the 
Tetragram. 

SCIENCE  :  S-Eye-hence :  /w-sight,  or  true  sight ;  Wis- 
dom (Rev.  13:18) — Eyes-real. 

S — INSPIRATION                                  27  9 
c — CONTEMPLATION,   INVESTIGA- 
TION                                             6  6 
i — ASSERTION,  EGO  (Truth)              14  5 
e — ATTENUATION  (final  analysis)      10  10 
n — ADEPTATION,  MASTERY                21  3 
c — INVESTIGATION,  CONTEMPLATION  6  6 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  151 

-EVOLUTION  9  9 


93          48 

3+3      8+3 
©          © 

6+n 

© 

Science  is  In-sight,  In-spiration,  In-tuition.    Also  it  is  one- 
seven^  one  Transition,  or  the  one  Way. 

M — ACCEPTATION  20  2 
a — ATTRACTION  I  I 
s — INSPIRATION  27  9 
u — PRESENCE,  DEDICATION  30  3 
o — COMPREHENSION,  UNDER- 
STANDING 22  4 
n — ADEPTATION,  MASTERY  21  3 
r — PREPARATION,  EXCISION  26  8 
i — CONFIRMATION  15  6 
y — RECOGNITION  35  8 


197  44 

7+8        4+: 

(15)  (12) 


Exactly  (integerically)  the  9  units  of 
processes,  or  hours,  on  the  Cross,  as  told 
in  the  four  Gospels.  T5  +  12 

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TRANSITION 

The  Way,  and  there  is  only  one  way,  the  Way  of  Ability, 
Bye-Able.  Transition  is  by  the  Transit,  and  the  Transit  is 
circular  in  shape  and  process,  pointing  always  to  the  four 
quarters,  N-E-W-S.  Hence  Masonry,  Transiting,  or  the  Art  of 
the  T'etragram^ — TETRAGRAMING. 


152  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Adequately  to  express  such,  we  have  no  word  for  LOVE, 
apparently.  The  Egyptian  Mason  called  this  word  Ah  Morel 
which,  in  the  subsequent  confusion  of  tongues  as  told  in  the 
nth  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Genesis,  became  fused  (or  con- 
fused) into  the  one  word  Amour y  and  also  armor.  This  latter 
was,  during  the  dark  ages,  mortal  man's  way  mostly  of  ex- 
pressing his  love. 

The  last  war,  we  are  told,  was  to  be  called  Armageddon. 

Christ,  in  the  Holy  Bible,  spoke  in  parables.  A  parable  is  a 
parabola.  Geometrically,  the  Line  of  Beauty  is  a  parabola.  It 
is  also  a  parabola  in  figure  of  speech.  Finally,  Webster's  dic- 
tionary defines  sparable  as  a  "similitude." 

Thus  Armageddon,  the  last  war,  announces  itself  in  parable, 
Ah  More  Getting. 

A — EXPANSION  3  3 

h — SYNTHESIS,  CONVENTION  13  4 

M — ACCEPTATION  20  2 

a — CONTRACTION,  CLOSING  4  4 

o — COMPREHENSION,  INCLUSION     22  4 

r — PREPARATION,  EXCISION  26  8 

e — EVOLUTION,  ISSUANCE  9  9 

97  34 

7+7        4+7 
@  © 

14+11 

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COMPREHENSION 

INCLUSION 

ALL 

IN  THE  SONG  OF  SONGS,  which  is  Solomon's,  Male  and  Fe- 
male speak,  or  sing,  what  apparently  purports  to  be  a  pas- 
toral; and  a  pastoral  is  a  poem  which  relates,  among  other 
things,  of  the  loves  of  shepherds. 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  153 

This  SONG  is  titled  to  be  the  loves  of  Christ  and  His 
Church,  but  is  sung  as  from  Solomon  to  his  love.  Christ,  in 
the  Holy  Bible,  be  it  remembered,  is  spoken  of  once  and  again 
as  the  Good  Shepherd, — He  who  was  sent  to  the  lost  sheep,— 
and  is  the  Shepherd  King,  of  course.  So,  logically,  this  SONG 
which  is  Solomon's,  and  is  all  about  Solomon,  but  is  titled  as 
the  loves  of  Christ  and  His  Church,  would  be  sung  in  pastoral ', 
or  shepherd  parable.  But  there  is  also  another  reason  for  the 
shepherd  symbolism  in  this,  and  such  reason  is  to  be  found  in 
verses  7  and  8  of  the  first  chapter  of  this  SONG  OF  SONGS, 
which  is  Solomon's: 

7:  Tell  me,  O  thou  whom  my 
soul  loveth,  where  thou  feedest, 
where  thou  makest  thy  flock  to 
rest  at  noon:  for  why  should 
I  be  as  one  that  turneth  aside 
by  the  flocks  of  thy  com- 
panions? 

8:  If  thou  know  not,  O  thou 
fairest  among  women,  go  thy 
way  forth  by  the  footsteps  of 
the  flock,  and  feed  thy  kids 
beside  the  shepherds'  tents. 

Why  should  the  words  thy  flock,  in  the  7th  verse,  be  in  italics? 
Obviously  not  because  the  mysterious  "translators"  of  the 
Holy  Bible  were  unable  to  find  those  words  elsewhere  in  this 
text,  for  in  the  lines  following,  as  well  as  in  the  verse  follow- 
ing, flock  and  flocks  are  both  used  in  unitalicized  form.  So 
that,  by  process  of  elimination,  we  arrive  at  the  only  conclu- 
sion possible, — namely,  that  by  this  so  obvious  emphasiza- 
tion,  even  as  in  the  case  of  the  Sphinx,  it  is  desired  that  the 
reader  especially  observe  and  reflect  upon  the  word  flock,  or 
the  words  thy  flock. 
What,  then,  is  flock? 


154  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

Webster's  International  Dictionary  of  the  English  Lan- 
guage describes  such  thus: 

Flock: 

A  company  or  collection  of  living  creatures.  .  .  .  A  Christian 
church  or  congregation;  considered  in  their  relation  to  the  pas- 
tor, or  minister  in  charge. 

Of flock  Dryden  says: 

Friends  daily  flock. 
Milton  poetizes: 

The  heathen  ....  came  to  Nicanor  in  flocks. 

2  Mace.  14:14 

And  Lord  Tennyson,  referring  to  a  pastor  and  his  congrega- 
tion, writes: 

As  half  amazed,  half  frighted  all  his  flock. 

The  Christ  is  the  Great  High  Priest,  and  the  chief  corner 
stone,  on  undisputed  Biblical  authority.  His  flock,  therefore, 
would  be  logically  those  of  His  congregation,  or  those  who 
congregate,  or  draw-unto  Him. 

And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from 
the  earth,  will  draw  all  men 
unto  me. 

St.  John  12:32. 

Men  emphasized,  even  as  flock,  whereby  it  is  patent  that 
Christ's  flock  is  man. 

The  Christ  is  figured  in  the  capstone  of  the  Great  Pyramid, 
which  when  lifted  up  from  the  earth  draws  all  the  integers 
known  as  man,  whose  number  is  666,  unto  it.  At  noon,  this 
chief  corner  stone,  in  place,  is  the  apex  of  the  Pyramid, — that 
solemn  index  finger  which  points  continually  to  the  sun  over- 
head, and  by  the  distance  of  which  from  the  Great  Pyramid's 
base  is  the  mean  of  the  sun  from  the  earth  computed.  And 
this  apex  of  the  Great  Pyramid  is  the  one  and  only  exact  spot 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  155 

on  the  earth's  known  surface  where,  at  precise  noon,  the 
phenomenon  of  a  directly  overhead  sun  occurs  always.  Hence, 
in  the  SONG  OF  SONGS,  which  is  Solomon's,  His  Church  asks  of 
Christ  where  He  makes  His  flock  to  rest  at  noon. 

And,  that  there  may  be  no  mistake  in  confirmation  of  this 
exact  location  where,  in  symbol,  the  Christ  makes  His  flock 
to  rest  at  noon,  in  the  following  verse  (8)  the  Christ  advises 
His  Church,  if  she  know  not  the  where,  to  follow  the  footsteps 
of  the  flock  and  feed  ber  kids  beside  the  shepherds'  tents. 

Why  the  shepherds'  tents? 

The  Great  Pyramid  is  the  center  of  that  three  Pyramidal 
group,  all  unique  in  the  exactness  of  their  orientation,  which 
is  known  as  the  Gizeh  Group.  It  is  generally  supposed  that 
this  group,  or  at  least  its  central  figure,  was  erected  during 
the  reign  of  the  Hyksos  Kings  of  Egypt,  who  were  called  the 
Shepherd  Kings.  The  Gizeh  group  of  Pyramids  has  also  been 
called  the  Shepherds'  'Tents. 

But  why  tents? 

T — COMPLETION  29  2 

e — ATTENUATION  10  10 

n — ADAPTATION  21  3 

t — COMPLETION  29  2 

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@  RELATION 

The  thirty-second  letter  of  the  alphabet,  V,  as  well  as  the 
second  Consciousness  State,  2,  amply  confirms  the  correctness 
of  usage  of  this  word  tent  in  this  connection.  T'enfy — ten-\.\ 
ten-(t)  placenta,  place-enter;  ten-t(tie).  fen-d:  the  Shepherd 
was  sent  to  ten-d  his  flock,  or  to  even  it,  to  make  it  10 — 10. 


156  THE  COFFER'S  MESSAGE 

even 

Christ;  and  all  ye  are  brethren. 
St.  Matthew  23:8 

So,  in  THE  SONG  OF  SONGS,  which  is  Solomon's,  says  the 
Christ  to  His  Church,  If  you  would  know  where  the  flock  is 
made  to  rest  at  noon,  go  feed  your  kids  beside  the  Great  Pyra- 
mid. And  that  which  is  beside  the  Great  Pyramid  is  the  figure 
on  the  Capstone,  whose  number  is  666,  and  which,  in  place, 
evens  and  balances  all. 


In  the  Holy  Bible  the  Christ  is  unmistakably  identified  with 
Solomon,  both  being  the  son  of  David. 

Solomon  builded  Gezer. 

He  builded  the  King's  House. 

He  builded  the  Lord's  House. 

He  builded  the  Temple. 

He  builded  without  the  sound  of  any  building  tool. 

The  dimensions  of  the  Temple  and  of  the  King's  Chamber 
in  the  central  figure  of  the  Gizeh  group  are  identical,  inch  for 
inch,  cube  for  cube,  cubit  for  cubit. 

The  King's  Chamber  is  also  identified  with  the  Son  of  God. 

The  Son  of  God  is  called  the  Christ. 

The  Christ  claimed  that  He  could  re-build  the  Temple 
within  three  days,  or  units  of  Consciousness. 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS,  which  is  Solomon's,  concerns  the  loves 
of  Christ  and  His  Church. 

Solomon  was,  of  course,  a  master  Mason. 

The  Free-Mason  acknowledges  the  Masonry  of  Solomon. 
So  does  the  Bible. 


THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  157 

In  Temple  lore,  the  Master  Mason  is  Osiris,  the  Son  of  Ra, 
the  Son  of  Light,  Life,  Being,  God. 

In  the  Holy  Bible  the  Master  Builder  was  the  son  of  a  car- 
penter, Himself  a  carpenter. 

Mason  and  Carpenter  both  work  with  T-Square  and  Com- 
pass. In  his  hand  holds  Osiris: 


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